Life's a jest and all things show it
- DMI number:
- 36721
- First Line:
- Life's a jest and all things show it
- Last Line:
- I thought so once but now I know it
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epitaph and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death and Wit
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Dearing and Beckwith (1974) I: 253.
- First Line:
- Life is a jest and all things show it
- Last Line:
- I thought so once but now I know it
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The beauties of poetry: or, a portable repository of English verse, on an entire new plan. [T85619] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.185
- Poem Title:
- On Gay's Monument in Westminster-Abby.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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