As pirates all false colours wear
- DMI number:
- 5546
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- As pirates all false colours wear
- Last Line:
- Leaves art to polish and refine
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes and Women / the female character
- Author:
- Samuel Butler
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Hudibras. Wilders (1967): 308 (III, Hudibras to his lady).
- First Line:
- How fair and sweet the planted rose
- Last Line:
- Leaves art to polish and refine
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.169
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (M-Z) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- pp.266-267
- Poem Title:
- Women's Painting.
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
Poem Aliases
Butler. Hudibras.
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