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
- 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.
- 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
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