Our fathers of old took oaths as their wives
- DMI number:
- 11912
- First Line:
- Our fathers of old took oaths as their wives
- Last Line:
- And a whore and a rogue may part when they please
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Satire, and Quatrain aabb
- Themes:
- Politics, Sex / relations between the sexes, and The law
- Author:
- Thomas Brown
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Variant from 'A merry Argument to prove the Antiquity of Oxon higher than that of Cambridge, because Adam was a Terra-filius before he turned Prevaricator.' Brown (1715) III: 273.
- First Line:
- Our fathers took oaths as of old they took wives
- Last Line:
- And a whore and a rogue may part when they please
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of state songs, poems &c. that have been published since the rebellion [T140496]
- Page No(s):
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- The Sense of the Tories, who take the Oaths with no other Design than to break them.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A pill to purge state melancholy [vol. 2] [T179426]
- Page No(s):
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- The Sense of the Tories, who take the Oaths with no other Design than to break them.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Pills to purge state melancholy: part the second [N11822]
- Page No(s):
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- The Sense of the Tories, who take the Oaths with no other Design than to break them.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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