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How far are they deceived who hope in vain

DMI number:
5425
First Line:
How far are they deceived who hope in vain
Last Line:
Before you pity I would choose your hate
Poem Genre / Form:
Couplet and Epistle
Themes:
Love and Sex / relations between the sexes
Related People
Author:
John Wilmot
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
Love: Possibly by Rochester [by Etherege?] Vieth (1968): 227: Noted but omitted.
Author:
Sir George Etherege
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Vieth (1968): 227: 'Probably by George Etherege'.
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First Line:
How far are they deceived that hope in vain
Last Line:
Before your pity I would choose your hate
Relationship:
Variant Of
Comments:
Content/Publication
Title:
The miscellaneous works of the Right Honourable the late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon [Vol I] [T95468]
Page No(s):
pp.72-75
Poem Title:
To the Right Honourable, the Earl of Rochester.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
Title:
The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset: The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. [Vol I] [T95240]
Page No(s):
pp.192-193
Poem Title:
An Epistle from Ephelia to Bajazet, complaining of his Inconstancy.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
Title:
The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c [Vol I] [T95242]
Page No(s):
pp.163-164
Poem Title:
An Epistle from Ephelia to Bajazet, complaining of his Inconstancy.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
Title:
The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset; the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c. [Vol I] [ECCO] [N35511]
Page No(s):
pp.147-148
Poem Title:
An Epistle from Ephelia to Bajazet, complaining of his Inconstancy.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot
Title:
The Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon [Vol I]. [T94652]
Page No(s):
pp.72-75
Poem Title:
To The Right Honourable, the Earl of Rochester.
Attribution:
Collected under Rochester's name
Attributed To:
John Wilmot