A pin who long had served a beauty
- DMI number:
- 1775
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- A pin who long had served a beauty
- Last Line:
- Are better than a pin behind
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Fable
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Much altered version of Pin and the Needle. Dearing and Beckwith (1974) II: 322-324.
- First Line:
- A pin who long had served a beauty
- Last Line:
- Of no more consequence than you
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Fables and other short poems [II]
- Page No(s):
- f. 20r
- Poem Title:
- The Pin and the Needle
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Gay. Pin and the needle.
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