I can allow such charms inconstancy
- DMI number:
- 41870
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- I can allow such charms inconstancy
- Last Line:
- Or by the favour of thy judge succeed
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Elegy, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Betrayal / deception and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Nahum Tate
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins, eds, The Dryden-Tonson Miscellanies, 1684-1709, 6 vols (London, 2008). I: cxii.
- Translated from:
- Ovid
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellany poems [ESTC R297]
- Page No(s):
- pp.159-161
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Thirteenth. To his Mistress, desiring her that (if she will be false to him) she wou'd manage her Intrigues with Secresie.
- Attribution:
- Englished By Mr. Tate.
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- Miscellany poems: in two parts [ESTC R31378]
- Page No(s):
- pp.157-159
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Thirteenth. To his Mistress, desiring her that (if she will be false to him) she wou'd manage her Intrigues with Secresie.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Tate.
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
Poem Aliases
Ovid. Amours. Book 3 Elegy 13.
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