Leave off thy paint perfumes and youthful dress
- DMI number:
- 6321
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Leave off thy paint perfumes and youthful dress
- Last Line:
- Plain downright ugliness would less offend
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Quatrain aabb
- Themes:
- Beauty and Women / the female character
- Translated from:
- Martial
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Sir Charles Sedley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Pinto (1928) I: 54.
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixed, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [Vol. I] [ESTC T130692]
- Page No(s):
- CLXXIII.
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixd, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [ESTC T41]
- Page No(s):
- XLVIII.
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Epigrams fresh gather'd from the conversation of the polite [N18487] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.21
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. II. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- p.146
- Poem Title:
- XCIX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86025]
- Page No(s):
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- LXIV. To a painted Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86180]
- Page No(s):
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- To a painted Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86181] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- To a painted Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The poetical works of the honourable Sir Charles Sedley Bar...with a new miscelany of poems by several of the most eminent hands [T132211]
- Page No(s):
- p.79
- Poem Title:
- To Cloe
- Attribution:
- Collected under Sedley's name.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Charles Sedley
- Title:
- The poetical works of the honourable Sir Charles Sedley Baronet...with a new miscellany of poems by several of the most eminent hands [T72752]
- Page No(s):
- p.79
- Poem Title:
- To Cloe.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Sedley's name.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Charles Sedley
Poem Aliases
Martial. Book 3 Epigram 42.
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