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Farewell ungrateful traitor

DMI number:
42278
Poem Aliases
Dryden. Spanish Friar.
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
First Line:
Farewell ungrateful traitor
Last Line:
When living is a pain | But dying &c
Poem Genre / Form:
Septet ababccb, Octet ababcccb, and Song with refrain
Themes:
Betrayal / deception and Sex / relations between the sexes
Related People
Author:
John Dryden
Confidence:
Confident (50%)
Comments:
Variant text of song from The Spanish Fryar, Act 5 Scene 1. Calif. XIV (1992): 182-83. The second stanza does not feature in Dryden's play.
Content/Publication
Title:
The compleat courtier: or, Cupid's academy [ESTC R184126]
Page No(s):
pp.139-140
Poem Title:
Song.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
Wit and drollery. Jovial poems. Corrected and amended, with new additions [ESTC R12497]
Page No(s):
pp.305-306
Poem Title:
The Farewel.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
Female poems on several occasions [ESTC R24055]
Page No(s):
pp.116-118
Poem Title:
The Farewel to Ingratitude.
Attribution:
Written by Ephelia.
Attributed To:
Ephelia