As down the torrent of an angry flood
- DMI number:
- 42338
- First Line:
- As down the torrent of an angry flood
- Last Line:
- For know that you are clay and they are brass
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Moral, and Fable
- Themes:
- Danger, Objects[pot; kettle.], and Politics
- Author:
- Charles Montagu
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Galbraith M. Crump describes Montagu's authorship as 'likely' in POAS IV (1968): 233.
- First Line:
- As down the torrent of an angry flood
- Last Line:
- To perish by the rigour of my friend
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- A second collection of ... poems, satyrs, songs, &c. against popery and tyranny [ESTC R7993]
- Page No(s):
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- The Story of the Pot, and the Kettle: As it was told by Colonel T-----s, the Night before he Kist the K----s Hand.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The muses farewel to popery & slavery [ESTC R23130]
- Page No(s):
- pp. 161-2
- Poem Title:
- The Fable of the Pot and Kettle, as it | was told by Collonel Titus the Night | before he Kiss'd the Kings Hand.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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