A pin who long had served a beauty
- DMI number:
- 37024
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- A pin who long had served a beauty
- Last Line:
- Of no more consequence than you
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Fable
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Dearing and Beckwith (1974) II: 322-324.
- First Line:
- A pin who long had served a beauty
- Last Line:
- Are better than a pin behind
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The complete fabulist [ecco] [T127912]
- Page No(s):
- pp.133-134
- Poem Title:
- XVII. The Pin and the Needle.
- Attribution:
- Part of 'Fables by Mr. John Gay'.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- Title:
- The complete fabulist [ecco] [T162293]
- Page No(s):
- pp.133-134
- Poem Title:
- XVII. The Pin and the Needle
- Attribution:
- Part of 'Fables by Mr John Gay'.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
Poem Aliases
Gay. Pin and the needle.
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