For her husband deceased Sally chants the sweet lay
- DMI number:
- 38366
- First Line:
- For her husband deceased Sally chants the sweet lay
- Last Line:
- She'll cry for a live one tomorrow
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Quatrain abab
- Themes:
- Marriage and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Christopher Smart
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Poetical Works, IV: 176.
- Title:
- The cabinet for wit: or, an infallible recipe to cure stupidity [ESTC P6303, T191092]
- Page No(s):
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram. On a Woman who was singing Ballads for Money to bury her Husband.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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