Trust not false man the experienced Prisca cries
- DMI number:
- 6131
- First Line:
- Trust not false man the experienced Prisca cries
- Last Line:
- But they by firm pursuing gain the prize
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Dramatic monologue and Couplet
- Themes:
- Age, Beauty, and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Sir Richard Steele
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Marked as a doubtful attribution by Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins. Gillespie and Hopkins, eds, The Dryden-Tonson Miscellanies, 1684-1709, 6 vols (London, 2008), VI: xi.
- First Line:
- When generous Prisca's early counsel came
- Last Line:
- Even light offends still flashing in their eyes
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poetical Miscellanies: the sixth part [T142876]
- Page No(s):
- pp.537-540
- Poem Title:
- Prisca's Advice to Novinda.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Agreeable Medley or, Universal Entertainer [T98503]
- Page No(s):
- pp.110-112
- Poem Title:
- Prisca's Advice to Novinda
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The muses mercury [P2007] [March 1707]
- Page No(s):
- pp.59-60
- Poem Title:
- Prisca's Advice to Novinda.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Page No(s):
- pp.171-172
- Poem Title:
- Prica's Advice to Novinda.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [T175048]
- Page No(s):
- pp.239-240
- Poem Title:
- Prisca's Advice to Novinda.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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