It so befell a silly swain
- DMI number:
- 12352
- First Line:
- It so befell a silly swain
- Last Line:
- If dost pray be so kind to speak
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Comic verse and Couplet
- Themes:
- Rural life and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Translated from:
- Jean de La Fontaine
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Matthew Prior
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Wright and Spears II: 809. 'Wrongly attributed to Prior'.
- Author:
- William Congreve
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Wright and Spears II: 809. McKenzie II: 437.
- First Line:
- It so befel a silly a swain
- Last Line:
- If dost pray be so kind to speak
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- It so befell a silly swain
- Last Line:
- If dost pray be so good to speak
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Tales to kill time, by the Society of the Court of Comus [T73665]
- Page No(s):
- pp.125-126
- Poem Title:
- The Ecstatic Vision; Or, The Je Ne Scay Quoi. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The agreeable companion [ESTC T97919, P6248]
- Page No(s):
- p.225
- Poem Title:
- The Ecstatic Vision; or, The Je ne Scay quoi.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The merry fellow [T128505] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.236
- Poem Title:
- The Lout looking for his Heifer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Poetical Tell-Tale; or, Muses in Merry Story. T124523 [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.125-126
- Poem Title:
- The Ecstatic Vision; or, The Je Ne Scay Quoi. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Poetical Tell-Tale; or, Muses in Merry Story. T174482 [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.125-126
- Poem Title:
- The Ecstatic Vision; or, The Je Ne Scay Quoi. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Tales and novels in verse. From the French of La Fontaine [T146694] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.147-149
- Poem Title:
- Le Villageois que cherche son Veau. The Lout looking for his Heifer. A Tale. From the Hundred New Novels.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Congreve
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- Title:
- Tales and novels in verse. From the French of La Fontaine [T147480]
- Page No(s):
- pp.113-114
- Poem Title:
- Le Villageois que cherche son Veau. The Lout looking fo rhis Heifer. A Tale. From the hundred new novels.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Congreve
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- Title:
- The muse in good humour [part 1] [T198535]
- Page No(s):
- pp.16-17
- Poem Title:
- The Lout looking for his Heifer. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- Title:
- The muse in good humour [T100480] [vol. I]
- Page No(s):
- pp.42-43
- Poem Title:
- The Lout looking for his Heifer. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- Title:
- The muse in good humour [T130695]
- Page No(s):
- pp.16-17
- Poem Title:
- The Lout looking for his Heifer. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- Title:
- The muse in good humour [T41632 vol. 1]
- Page No(s):
- pp.44-45
- Poem Title:
- The Lout looking for his Heifer. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- Title:
- The muse in good humour. Or, a collection of comic tales [T197901] [ECCO Cambridge University Library]
- Page No(s):
- pp.16-17
- Poem Title:
- The Lout looking for his Heifer. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- Title:
- The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol II] [T85787] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.55-56
- Poem Title:
- The Lout looking for his Heifer. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. II. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- pp.55-56
- Poem Title:
- Phyllis; or the Progress of Love.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
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