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Fair one the letter that you sent me

DMI number:
8642
First Line:
Fair one the letter that you sent me
Last Line:
I'm yours for ever Hudibras
Poem Genre / Form:
Couplet and Epistle
Themes:
Sex / relations between the sexes
Related People
Author:
Samuel Butler
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
Like the other parts attributed to Butler in this vol., these lines use hudibrastic technique, and epithets lifted from the poem; they are probably part of the many continuations, additions, and parodies of the poem, rather than by Butler himself, as far as can be known.
Content/Publication
Title:
Familiar letters of love, gallantry and several occasions by the wits of the last and present age [Vol I] [T64796]
Page No(s):
pp.17-22
Poem Title:
The Knight's second Letter to the Widow Blackgrove.
Attribution:
By the same [i.e. Butler].
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
Familiar letters of love, gallantry, and several other occasions by the wits of the last and present age [vol I] [T64784]
Page No(s):
pp.17-22
Poem Title:
The Knight's second Letter to the Widow Blackgrove.
Attribution:
By the same [i.e. Butler].
Attributed To:
Samuel Butler