Happy is the man that takes delight
- DMI number:
- 42551
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Happy is the man that takes delight
- Last Line:
- And the cuckold he lies thinking
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Octet ababcdcd and Song
- Themes:
- Entertainments / pastimes, Sex / relations between the sexes, and The happy man / contentment[libertinism.]
- Author:
- Thomas D'Urfey
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Variant text of a song from Act 5 Scene 1 of Madam Fickle (1677, ESTC R35668): 52.
- Title:
- The Wits Academy [R4337]
- Page No(s):
- pp. 110-111
- Poem Title:
- SONG CXXI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Wit and drollery. Jovial poems. Corrected and amended, with new additions [ESTC R12497]
- Page No(s):
- pp.345-346
- Poem Title:
- The Libertine.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
D'Urfey. Madam Fickle. Act 5.
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