Fair Susan did her wif-hede well menteine

DMI number:

39284

First Line:

Fair Susan did her wif-hede well menteine

Last Line:

Full merveillous I wote were swilk denyal

Poem Genre / Form:

Imitation (Old / Middle English / archaic dialect) and Couplet

Themes:

Sex / relations between the sexes

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Author:

Matthew Prior

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Wright and Spears I: 400.

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Content/Publication

Title:

A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixed, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [Vol. I] [ESTC T130692]

Page No(s):

p.CDIII

Poem Title:

In Chaucer's Stile.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

Title:

A collection of epigrams. To which is prefix’d, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [ESTC T41]

Page No(s):

p.CCCXCVIII.

Poem Title:

In Chaucer's Stile.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

Title:

The Comic Miscellany. Vol. II. [ESTC N51175]

Page No(s):

p.171

Poem Title:

CLXXXII. In Chaucer's Style.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior