Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long
- DMI number:
- 2249
- First Line:
- Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long
- Last Line:
- To kill us by looking as if she would die
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Sestet aabbcc
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes and Social order
- Author:
- Charles Sackville
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) VIII: 345. Harris (1979): 90-92.
- First Line:
- Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long
- Last Line:
- To kill us with looking as if she would die
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poetical miscellanies: the fifth part [T161282]
- Page No(s):
- pp.285-287
- Poem Title:
- A Song, Written some Time since.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [T214159]
- Page No(s):
- pp.126-127
- Poem Title:
- A Song. Written some Time since.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The St. James's miscellany [T193028]
- Page No(s):
- pp.10-11
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems by the Earls of Roscommon and Dorset; The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckingham, &c. [vol. II] [BL]
- Page No(s):
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- A Song on Black Bess.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The minor poets or the works of the most celebrated authors [vol 1] [N6033]
- Page No(s):
- pp.84-85
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The Poetical Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset; the Dukes of Devonshire and Buckinhamshire [Vol II] [T94654]
- Page No(s):
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- A Song, On Black Bess.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The Poetical Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon and Dorset; the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. [Vol II] [T130333]
- Page No(s):
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- A Song On Black Bess.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The works of celebrated authors of whose writings there are but small remains [vol I] [T145013] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.202-203
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- The Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset, also those of the Dukes of Devonshire and Buckinghamshire [T95243]
- Page No(s):
- p.141
- Poem Title:
- A Song on Black Bess.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset, the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire [Vol II] [T94653]
- Page No(s):
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- A Song, On Black Bess.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset: The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c [Vol II] [T95240]
- Page No(s):
- pp.57-58
- Poem Title:
- A Song on Black Bess.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset: The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. [Vol II] [T146730]
- Page No(s):
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- A Song On Black Bess.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset [Vol II] [T94657]
- Page No(s):
- pp.59-60
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire [Vol II] [T152378]
- Page No(s):
- pp.56-57
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire [Vol II] [T95241]
- Page No(s):
- pp.56-57
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c [Vol II] [T95242]
- Page No(s):
- pp.45-46
- Poem Title:
- A Song on Black Bess.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset, the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c. [Vol II] [N35509]
- Page No(s):
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- A Song on Black-Bess.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset: the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c. [Vol II] [T119718]
- Page No(s):
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- A Song on Black Bess.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [2nd ed] [T185023] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.134-135
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [N25943] [ECCO] (1751)
- Page No(s):
- pp.134-135
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [T79268]
- Page No(s):
- pp.134-135
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
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