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As Cupid once with wanton play

DMI number:
39255
First Line:
As Cupid once with wanton play
Last Line:
And how thou doubly killst with those
Poem Genre / Form:
Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Anacreontic, and Couplet
Themes:
Love, Animals[insects - bee.], and Mythology[Venus and Cupid.]
Related People
Translated from:
Anacreon
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Author:
Francis Willis
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Michael Hilton, 'The Anacreontea in England to 1683', 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, 1980) II: 43.
Content/Publication
Title:
Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek [ESTC R7394]
Page No(s):
pp.85-86
Poem Title:
XXXVII. Cupid wounded.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
The works of Anacreon and Sappho [T85628] [ecco]
Page No(s):
p.41
Poem Title:
XXXVII. Cupid Wounded.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed