Like mortal man great Jove grown fond of change
- DMI number:
- 28493
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Like mortal man great Jove grown fond of change
- Last Line:
- And Whitehall echoes clean your honour's shoes
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Fable
- Themes:
- Mythology, Places[London], Sex / relations between the sexes, and Trades / labour[Shoe-boy]
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Trivia (Book II). Dearing and Beckwith (1974) I: 134-172.
- First Line:
- Like mortal man great Jove grown fond of change
- Last Line:
- A mortal scavenger she saw she loved
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Like mortal men great Jove grown fond of change
- Last Line:
- And Whitehall echoes clean your honour's shoes
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The polite companion: containing essays illustrated with passages from the poets, orators [T202654] [Vol.2]
- Page No(s):
- pp.298-302
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- from Mr. Gay's trivia [p.298]
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
Poem Aliases
Gay. Trivia.
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