Madam in vain you strive to cheat our sight
- DMI number:
- 21524
- First Line:
- Madam in vain you strive to cheat our sight
- Last Line:
- And sooner lay than represent the D---l
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes, Supernatural[Apparitions], and Women / the female character
- First Line:
- Madam in vain you strive to cheat our sight
- Last Line:
- And easier lay than represent the devil
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems written occasionally by John Winstanley... interspers'd with many others, by several ingenious hands [T90956]
- Page No(s):
- pp.267-268
- Poem Title:
- Upon a Lady, who endeavoured to frighten a Gentleman in the Dark.
- Attribution:
- 'Dr. Winstanley's Poems', p.1.
- Attributed To:
- John Winstanley
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