If wit or honesty could save
- DMI number:
- 23027
- First Line:
- If wit or honesty could save
- Last Line:
- And mend your own by True's behaviour
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epitaph and Couplet
- Themes:
- Animals, Death, and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Matthew Prior
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Wright and Spears I: 124-5.
- Author:
- Thomas Brown
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Brown (1720): 60-61.
- Title:
- Poems written occasionally by the late John Winstanley...interspers'd with many others, by several ingenious hands [vol II] [N21265] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.194-195
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph on a Dog that belonged to her late Majesty Queen Anne.
- Attribution:
- By a Young Nobleman.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A new select collection of epitaphs [vol 2] [T136904] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.82
- Poem Title:
- On True.
- Attribution:
- Mat. Prior, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- Title:
- Additions to the works of Alexander Pope, Esq. [T5465] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.93
- Poem Title:
- True's Epitaph. By Mr. Prior.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- Title:
- Additions to the works of Alexander Pope, Esq. [T5466] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.89-90
- Poem Title:
- True's Epitaph. By the same.
- Attribution:
- [Prior]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- Title:
- The new foundling hospital for wit ... Part the fifth [T139945] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.168
- Poem Title:
- True's Epitaph...Transcribed From The Harleian Collection of MSS. No. 7316, Page 28.
- Attribution:
- By Matthew Prior, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- Title:
- The new foundling hospital for wit ... Part the sixth [N51896] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.168
- Poem Title:
- True's Epitaph...Transcribed From The Harleian Collection of MSS. No. 7316, Page 28.
- Attribution:
- By Matthew Prior, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
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