There was a man bespake a thing
- DMI number:
- 41960
- First Line:
- There was a man bespake a thing
- Last Line:
- Whether he hath it I or no
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Riddle and Couplet
- Themes:
- Objects[Coffin (solution in miscellany ID 1650).] and Death
- Author:
- Sir John Davies
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- 'A Riddle upon a Coffin'. The Works in Verse and Prose [...] of Sir John Davies, ed. by Alexander B. Grosart, 3 vols (1869-76), I: 306.
- Title:
- A help to discourse [ESTC R218198]
- Page No(s):
- p.112
- Poem Title:
- Riddle 9.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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