Read fair maid and know the heat

DMI number:

5634

First Line:

Read fair maid and know the heat

Last Line:

That thus canst make a poet chaste

Poem Genre / Form:

Couplet and Epistle

Themes:

Love and Poetry / literature / writing

Content/Publication

Title:

Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]

Page No(s):

pp.444-445

Poem Title:

Being Verses sent to a Virgin (by a Poet that lov'd her) proving that he, and his chiming Brethren, cou'd perform Things impossible to be done; which she sending back unread, were return'd with this Inscription:

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