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
- 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'.
- 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:
- 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
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