Dear Smed although I'm pressed with cares

DMI number:

11982

First Line:

Dear Smed although I'm pressed with cares

Last Line:

And smoke your pipe and draw your tithes

Poem Genre / Form:

Lampoon, Answer/reply, and Couplet

Themes:

Personal insults and Poetry / literature / writing

Related People

Dedicatee:

Jonathan Smedley

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Addressed to 'Dear Smed'.

Author:

Jonathan Swift

Confidence:

Speculation (10%)

Comments:

Swift Poems Project, !W06 ('Doubtfully by Swift')

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Loaded my lord with cares of state

Last Line:

An English dean or Irish bishop

Relationship:

Answer To/Answered By

Comments:

First Line:

Dear Smed although impressed with cares

Last Line:

And smoke your pipe and draw your tithes

Relationship:

Variant Of

Comments:

Content/Publication

Title:

A Miscellaneous Collection of Poems, Songs and Epigrams. By several Hands (vol. 2) [T106190] [ECCO]

Page No(s):

pp. 134-139

Poem Title:

A Familiar Answer To the foregoing Epistle.

Attribution:

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Not attributed