They hurt their hands sometimes that hope to gain
- DMI number:
- 5864
- First Line:
- They hurt their hands sometimes that hope to gain
- Last Line:
- None reaps the sweet but he must taste the sour
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Quatrain abab
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Nature
- Author:
- Thomas Combe
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- LION
- Title:
- The poetical courant [P2203]
- Page No(s):
- No. 19 (r)
- Poem Title:
- A Gentlewoman employ'd a Spark to gather Roses for her, but having very much prick'd his hands would gather no more; upon which, the Lady was pleas'd to have a Rose painted over his Door, with this Inscription under it.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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