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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
Related People
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.
Content/Publication
Title:
A help to discourse [ESTC R218198]
Page No(s):
pp.96-97
Poem Title:
Epig. 7. In amorosum.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed