I was at first a piece of fig tree wood
- DMI number:
- 950
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- I was at first a piece of fig tree wood
- Last Line:
- Their bones their herbs and all their devils lost
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Satire, Thing-poem, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Rural life and Supernatural
- Translated from:
- Horace
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- John Stafford
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Gillespie and Hopkins (2008) II: ix.
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 2] [T93622] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.93-95
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Book I. Sat. VIII.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- Title:
- Miscellany poems: in two parts [ESTC R31378]
- Page No(s):
- pp.436-441
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Saty. 2. Lib. I.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford.
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- Title:
- Sylvae: or the second part of poetical miscellanies [T116469]
- Page No(s):
- pp.144-147
- Poem Title:
- Horace Saty. 2. Lib. 1.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R1682]
- Page No(s):
- pp.436-441
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Saty. 2. Lib. 1.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford.
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R31379]
- Page No(s):
- pp.252-257
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Saty. 2. Lib. 1.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford.
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R41930]
- Page No(s):
- pp.252-257
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Saty. 2. Lib. 1.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford.
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- Title:
- The odes and satires of Horace [T42017]
- Page No(s):
- pp.166-169
- Poem Title:
- Satyr II.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- Title:
- The Odes and Satyrs of Horace [Dublin] [T42022]
- Page No(s):
- pp.167-169
- Poem Title:
- Satyr II....In the Second Part of Miscellany Poems, pag. 144.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- Title:
- The Odes and Satyrs of Horace [T42018]
- Page No(s):
- pp.158-160
- Poem Title:
- Satyr II....In the Second Part of Miscellany Poems, Page 144.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- Title:
- The Odes and Satyrs of Horace [T42019]
- Page No(s):
- pp.158-160
- Poem Title:
- Satyr II....In the Second Part of Miscellany Poems, Page 114.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- Title:
- The Odes and Satyrs of Horace [T42020]
- Page No(s):
- pp.158-160
- Poem Title:
- Satyr II....In the Second Part of Miscellany Poems, Page 144.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- Title:
- The Odes and Satyrs of Horace [T42021]
- Page No(s):
- pp.158-160
- Poem Title:
- Satyr II....In the Second Part of Miscellany Poems, Page 144.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [N70161]
- Page No(s):
- pp.249-251
- Poem Title:
- The Eighth Satyr of the First Book of Horace.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.245-247
- Poem Title:
- The Eighth Satyr of the First Book of Horace.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford.
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
Poem Aliases
Horace. Satires. Book 1 Satire 8.
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