Tis true I was a sturdy soldier once
- DMI number:
- 42125
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Tis true I was a sturdy soldier once
- Last Line:
- And pay her with a pox
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Quatrain abab, and Ode
- Themes:
- Love, Mythology[Venus and Cupid.], Punishment, and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Translated from:
- Horace
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Thomas Flatman
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Book III. Ode III. To Venus'. Flatman (1686): 263.
- Title:
- The poems of Horace [ESTC R712]
- Page No(s):
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- Ode III. ... Paraphrased. To Venus.
- Attribution:
- By Sir T. F.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Flatman
Poem Aliases
Horace. Odes. Book 3 Ode 26.
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