Pontius who loves you know a joke
- DMI number:
- 16882
- First Line:
- Pontius who loves you know a joke
- Last Line:
- Pray bring your brother wits to see it
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Joke / jest, Quatrain abab, and Comic verse
- Themes:
- Marriage, Part of the body[Hair], Sex / relations between the sexes[Battle of wits], and Wit
- Author:
- Matthew Prior
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Wright and Spears I: 684-5.
- Title:
- Miscellaneous works of his late excellency Matthew Prior [ECCO] [T75653]
- Page No(s):
- pp.71-72
- Poem Title:
- Pontius and Pontia.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- Title:
- Poems on several occasions [T75638] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.106-107
- Poem Title:
- Pontius and Pontia.
- Attribution:
- Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- Title:
- Poems on several occasions [T75645]
- Page No(s):
- pp.106-107
- Poem Title:
- Pontius and Pontia.
- Attribution:
- Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- Title:
- Poems on several occasions [T75657]
- Page No(s):
- pp.106-107
- Poem Title:
- Pontius and Pontia.
- Attribution:
- Title-page attribution, 'By Matthew Prior, Esq'.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- Title:
- The muse's vagaries or the merry mortal's companion [Part I] [ESTC T170724]
- Page No(s):
- pp.24-25
- Poem Title:
- Pontius and Pontia.
- Attribution:
- Contents page attribution: By the same [i.e. Prior]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
Related People
Content/Publication