Friend thou dost lash me with a story
- DMI number:
- 42493
- First Line:
- Friend thou dost lash me with a story
- Last Line:
- Was cut from Spain without a hand saw
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Lampoon, Couplet, and Epistle
- Themes:
- Politics and Religion
- Author:
- James Smith
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- ODNB: Smith 'continued to keep in contact with Mennes through verse epistles: in one (4 May 1648) he defends himself for adopting the Directory for the Publique Worship of God'.
- Title:
- Wit and drollery. Jovial poems. Corrected and amended, with new additions [ESTC R12497]
- Page No(s):
- pp.205-207
- Poem Title:
- An answer to a Letter from Sir John Mennis, wherein he jeeres him for falling so quickly to the use of the Directory.
- Attribution:
- I. S.
- Attributed To:
- James Smith
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