He that has gold and riches great
- DMI number:
- 10885
- First Line:
- He that has gold and riches great
- Last Line:
- The cheil that dois on dry breid wirry | I give them to the devil of hell
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Dialect verse, Song with refrain, and Quintain / quintet aabab
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts, Fate / fortune / providence, and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- William Dunbar
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Modernised version of 'He that hes gold and grit riches'. Bawcutt (1998) I: 86.
- First Line:
- He that hes gold and grit richess
- Last Line:
- I gif him to the devill of hell
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The ever green being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600. [Vol I] [ESTC T144558]
- Page No(s):
- p.204-205
- Poem Title:
- On anes being his own Enemy.
- Attribution:
- Quod Dunbar.
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- Title:
- The ever green, being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600. [Vol I] [ESTC T143032]
- Page No(s):
- p.204-205
- Poem Title:
- On anes being his own Enemy.
- Attribution:
- Quod Dunbar.
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
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