Though I but seventeen do declare
- DMI number:
- 36921
- First Line:
- Though I but seventeen do declare
- Last Line:
- A parson wears a band
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Answer/reply, Couplet, Quatrain abab, Quatrain aabb, and Comic verse
- Themes:
- Humour, jokes, Objects, and Wit
- Author:
- William le Tans'ur
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Attribution based on 'Beauties of Poetry', p. 178.
- First Line:
- A man had three apples gave one to his mother
- Last Line:
- They each had an apple and one for himself
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- A place where the farmer sometimes lays his wheat
- Last Line:
- May be found fifty prostitutes every day
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Come try your thoughts ye thinking scribbling tribe
- Last Line:
- The author freely lends the key
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- From our first parents I my being claim
- Last Line:
- Who tells my name will always find me nigh
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Raised from the earthly secret mine
- Last Line:
- Kept safe you've got sixty more behind
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Take half a foreign soldier's name
- Last Line:
- When past a dozen years
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Take two sixths of what Solomon largely possessed
- Last Line:
- Had he all things else at desire
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The expression of woe when to anguish we wake
- Last Line:
- Make the name of a nymph by some beaux much adored
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- What Hodge says at Plow must be placed before
- Last Line:
- He after his death unto Tyburn was tied
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- Title:
- The beauties of poetry: or, a portable repository of English verse, on an entire new plan. [T85619] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.340
- Poem Title:
- Keys to the several AENigmas, &c.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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