Follow a shadow it still flies you
- DMI number:
- 41916
- First Line:
- Follow a shadow it still flies you
- Last Line:
- Let her alone she will court you
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Joke / jest, Quatrain aaaa, and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Light[a person's shadow.], Sex / relations between the sexes, and Women / the female character
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- LION. Extract, with variants, from 'Song. That Women Are But Mens Shaddows'.
- Title:
- A help to discourse [ESTC R218198]
- Page No(s):
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- [no title: embedded quotation]
- Attribution:
- according to the Poet
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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