All day the shrew Afflana does complain
- DMI number:
- 13791
- First Line:
- All day the shrew Afflana does complain
- Last Line:
- And praises the pleasures of a nuptial bed
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Quatrain aabb, and Comic verse
- Themes:
- Marriage, Sex and bawdy humour, Sex / relations between the sexes, and Women / the female character
- Author:
- John Morrice
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- See Thomas Mautner, 'An Unknown Author', Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 32 No. 2 (2009), 173-196, 181
- Title:
- Original and genuine letters sent to the Tatler and Spectator [T147412] [vol. 1]
- Page No(s):
- p.163
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram out of Owen.
- Attribution:
- By the same hand
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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