Give me leave to rail at you
- DMI number:
- 4129
- First Line:
- Give me leave to rail at you
- Last Line:
- And makes the slaves grow pleased again
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Complaint, Octet aabbccdd, and Song
- Themes:
- Love and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- John Wilmot
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- 'Song' ('Give me leave to rail at you'), with variants. Love: 'probably by Rochester'. Vieth (1968): 10-11.
- First Line:
- Give me leave to rail at you
- Last Line:
- And makes the slave grow pleased again
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Give me leave to rail at you
- Last Line:
- And quell the rebel in your arms
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Kindness has resistless charms
- Last Line:
- And clips the wings of flying love
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Kindness has resistless charms
- Last Line:
- And makes the slave grow pleased and vain
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems on several occasions with Valentinian [T95235]
- Page No(s):
- pp.52-53
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- Poems on several occasions with Valentinian [T95236]
- Page No(s):
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- Poems, &c. on several occasions with Valentinian a tragedy [ESTC R1390]
- Page No(s):
- pp.55-56
- Poem Title:
- A Song
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- Title:
- Poems, &c. on several occasions with Valentinian a tragedy [ESTC R35149]
- Page No(s):
- pp.52-53
- Poem Title:
- A Song
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
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