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Tell me Dorinda why so gay

DMI number:
7087
First Line:
Tell me Dorinda why so gay
Last Line:
At once both stink and shine
Poem Genre / Form:
Lampoon and Quintain / quintet abaab
Themes:
The monarchy (heads of state)[James II] and Women / the female character[Countess of Dorchester]
Related People
Author:
Charles Sackville
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Chalmers (1810) VIII: 343. POAS (1971) V:385. Harris (1979): 45-6.
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First Line:
Tell me Dorinda why so gay
Last Line:
At once both stink and sing
Relationship:
Variant Of
Comments:
Content/Publication
Title:
A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixed, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [Vol. I] [ESTC T130692]
Page No(s):
CXCIX.
Poem Title:
[No title]
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
A collection of epigrams. To which is prefix’d, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [ESTC T41]
Page No(s):
CC.
Poem Title:
[No title]
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
A collection of miscellany poems, letters &c. By Mr. Brown, &c. [R31629]
Page No(s):
pp.97-98
Poem Title:
To an old affected Court Lady
Attribution:
By a person of Honour
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
The book of fun or the quintessence of wit and mirth [T191471] [ecco]
Page No(s):
pp.32-33
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James II. Written in the Year 1680.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
A collection of select epigrams in which are many originals never before printed by the most eminent hands [T124651]
Page No(s):
p.70
Poem Title:
CCXLIV. On the Countess of D--r Mistress to James the Second.
Attribution:
Earl of Dorset.
Attributed To:
Charles Sackville
Title:
Epigrams fresh gather'd from the conversation of the polite [N18487] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
p.15
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
By the Earl of Dorset.
Attributed To:
Charles Sackville
Title:
Poems by the Earls of Roscommon and Dorset; The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckingham, &c. [vol. II] [BL]
Page No(s):
p.26
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James II. Written in the Year 1680.
Attribution:
Collected under Dorset's name.
Attributed To:
Charles Sackville
Title:
The agreeable companion [ESTC T97919, P6248]
Page No(s):
p.379
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James II.
Attribution:
By the Earl of Dorset.
Attributed To:
Charles Sackville
Title:
The minor poets or the works of the most celebrated authors [vol 1] [N6033]
Page No(s):
p.81
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Second. Written in 1680.
Attribution:
By the Earl of Dorset.
Attributed To:
Charles Sackville
Title:
The new theatre of fun [T116718] [ecco]
Page No(s):
pp.74-75
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Second. Written in 1680.
Attribution:
By the Earl of Dorset.
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.20-21
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Second : Written in the Year 1680.
Attribution:
Collected under Dorset's name
Attributed To:
Charles Sackville
Title:
The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol I] [T85787] [ecco]
Page No(s):
pp.218-219
Poem Title:
Song 280...on the Countess of Dorchester.
Attribution:
By the Earl of Dorset.
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):
p.199
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Second. Written in 1680.
Attribution:
The Earl of Dorset.
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.27-28
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James II. Written in the Year 1680.
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.27-28
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Second. Written in the Year 1680.
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.24-25
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Second. Written in the Year 1680.
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.24-25
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Second: Written in the Year 1680.
Attribution:
Collected under Dorset's name.
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):
p.24
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James II. Written in the Year 1680.
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):
p.26
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James II. Written in the Year 1680.
Attribution:
Collected under the name of Dorset.
Attributed To:
Charles Sackville
Title:
The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [2nd ed] [T185023] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
p.131
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Second. Written in 1680.
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):
p.131
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Second. Written in 1680.
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):
p.131
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Second. Written in 1680.
Attribution:
Collected under the name of Dorset.
Attributed To:
Charles Sackville
Title:
Wit a-la-mode; or, Lord Chesterfield's witticisms [T101784] [ecco]
Page No(s):
pp.74-75
Poem Title:
On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Second. Written in 1680.
Attribution:
By the Earl of Dorset.
Attributed To:
Charles Sackville