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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
Related People
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'.
Content/Publication
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