They both were drowned whilst love and fate contended
- DMI number:
- 8518
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- They both were drowned whilst love and fate contended
- Last Line:
- And thus they both pure flesh like pure fish ended
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Mock epitaph, Couplet, and Distich
- Themes:
- Death and Mythology
- Author:
- James Smith
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- This epitaph concludes 'The Loves of Hero and Leander (poem ID 8515), attributed to James Smith in ODNB and Roy Booth, 'Hero's afterlife: Hero and Leander and "lewd unmannerly verse" in the late seventeenth century', Early Modern Literary Studies, 12.3 (2007), article 4.
- First Line:
- Leander being fresh and gay
- Last Line:
- Her flood gates opt and her own water drowned her
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Ovid de arte amandi and the remedy of love Englished [ESTC R214548]
- Page No(s):
- p.138
- Poem Title:
- The Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Ovid de arte amandi and the remedy of love Englished [ESTC R7878]
- Page No(s):
- p.138
- Poem Title:
- The Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Ovid, De arte amandi [T181103]
- Page No(s):
- p.138
- Poem Title:
- The Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Ovid, de arte amandi [T109573]
- Page No(s):
- p.138
- Poem Title:
- The Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Loves of Hero and Leander.
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