The husband thus reproved his wife
- DMI number:
- 30505
- First Line:
- The husband thus reproved his wife
- Last Line:
- The world with interest pays the debt
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Fable
- Themes:
- Marriage and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Dearing and Beckwith (1974) II: 335-336.
- Title:
- The complete fabulist [ecco] [T127912]
- Page No(s):
- pp.145-146
- Poem Title:
- XXVI. The Scold and the Parrot.
- Attribution:
- Part of 'Fables by Mr. John Gay'.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- Title:
- The complete fabulist [ecco] [T162293]
- Page No(s):
- pp.145-146
- Poem Title:
- XXVI. The Scold and the Parrot.
- Attribution:
- Part of 'Fables by Mr John Gay'.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- Title:
- The entertainer; containing great variety of instructive entertainment [Vol II] [T100454]
- Page No(s):
- pp.110-111
- Poem Title:
- The Cobler's Whistling Linnet.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
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