A wife you wished me sir rich fair and young
- DMI number:
- 41931
- First Line:
- A wife you wished me sir rich fair and young
- Last Line:
- Expect such plenty I would wish no more
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Octet aabbccdd
- Themes:
- Communication[foreign languages.], Marriage, and Women / the female character
- Author:
- Sir John Davies
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Alexander B. Grosart comments that this and other epigrams 'have the ring of Davies in them'. Grosart, ed., The Works in Verse and Prose [...] of Sir John Davies, 3 vols (1869-76), I: 311, 352-53.
- Title:
- A help to discourse [ESTC R218198]
- Page No(s):
- pp.96-97
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 7. In amorosum.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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