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In Aesop's time a wretched man we find

DMI number:
4542
First Line:
In Aesop's time a wretched man we find
Last Line:
And said thou wantest brains as well as hair
Poem Genre / Form:
Couplet and Fable
Themes:
Marriage and Sex / relations between the sexes
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Author:
Matthew Prior
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Wright and Spears I: 181-2.
Author:
Sir Charles Sedley
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
Pinto (1928) II: 151. Attributed to Sedley on 'doubtful authority.'
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