Like a dog that runs madding at sheep or at cows

DMI number:

42479

First Line:

Like a dog that runs madding at sheep or at cows

Last Line:

Just like an honest man and his wife

Poem Genre / Form:

Answer/reply and Song

Themes:

Marriage, Sex / relations between the sexes, Virtue / vice, and Animals

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Content/Publication

Title:

Wit and drollery. Jovial poems. Corrected and amended, with new additions [ESTC R12497]

Page No(s):

pp.158-159

Poem Title:

The Batchelors Song Retorted.

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Not attributed