Farewell ungrateful traitor
- DMI number:
- 42278
- 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
- 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.
- 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
Poem Aliases
Dryden. Spanish Friar.
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