Thus I stand like a Turk with his doxies all round
- DMI number:
- 878
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Thus I stand like a Turk with his doxies all round
- Last Line:
- The wretched today may be happy tomorrow
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Song
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Beggar's Opera Act 3 Scene 17. Fuller (1983) II.
- Title:
- The New Vocal Miscellany. Containing near 200 Songs [T179110] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.136
- Poem Title:
- Song 171. Lumps of Pudding.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Gay. Beggar's opera.
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