Want is a bitter and a hateful good
- DMI number:
- 30944
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Want is a bitter and a hateful good
- Last Line:
- Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice[want/desire] and Women / the female character
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The Desire of Woman, or The Wife of Bath's Tale' (1741); Calif. VII (2000): 477-9.
- First Line:
- In days of old when Arthur filled the throne
- Last Line:
- Who will not well be governed by their wives
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.127
- Poem Title:
- Want
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (M-Z) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.364
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Wife of Bath.
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