Once how I doted on this jilting town
- DMI number:
- 3665
- First Line:
- Once how I doted on this jilting town
- Last Line:
- But all the mighty pother ends in punk
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Lampoon, Topical satire, Satire, and Couplet
- Themes:
- City, High society / the court, Liberty, Love, Other countries[Ireland], Places[London], Poetry / literature / writing, Politics, Religion[anti-catholicism], Sex / relations between the sexes, Social order, and Theatre
- Author:
- Charles Sackville
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Attributed in O. S. Pickering, 'An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville Earl of Dorset', Notes and Queries 235 (1990), pp. 296-7.
- Title:
- A new collection of poems relating to state affairs [N5917]
- Page No(s):
- pp.141-144
- Poem Title:
- The Town Life.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol I] [T108847]
- Page No(s):
- pp.190-193
- Poem Title:
- The Town Life.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol. I] [N12193 part 1]
- Page No(s):
- pp.190-193
- Poem Title:
- The Town-Life.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol. I] [T144919]
- Page No(s):
- pp.190-193
- Poem Title:
- The Town Life.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol. I] [T144920 part 1]
- Page No(s):
- p.190-193
- Poem Title:
- The Town-Life.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of State: from the time of Oliver Cromwell to the abdication of K. James the second. [ESTC R26563]
- Page No(s):
- Poem Title:
- The Town Life.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state: from the time of Oliver Cromwell to the abdication of K. James the second. [ESTC R26892]
- Page No(s):
- pp. 201-5
- Poem Title:
- The Town Life.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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