Blacklight

We read in profane and sacred records

DMI number:
3639
First Line:
We read in profane and sacred records
Last Line:
There's ten times more treason in brandy and ale
Poem Genre / Form:
Dialogue, Beast tale, Couplet, Satire, Thing-poem, Lampoon, Comic verse, and Topical satire
Themes:
Places, Scatological humour / bodily functions, Ancient history[Livy.], Animals[horses.], Architecture / buildings[horseback statues of Charles I at Charing Cross and Charles II at Woolchurch.], Politics[court corruption.], Religion[anti-Catholicism.], Corruption, and Tobacco[tax.]
Related People
Author:
Andrew Marvell
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
Listed among 'Poems of Uncertain Attribution' in Smith (2007): 462. George deF. Lord considers Marvell attribution 'unlikely' in POAS I (1963): 274.
Author:
John Ayloffe
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
George deF. Lord mentions Ayloffe as a possible candidate for authorship in POAS I (1963): 274.
Content/Publication
Title:
A new collection of poems relating to state affairs [N5917]
Page No(s):
pp.98-104
Poem Title:
A Dialogue between two Horses.
Attribution:
By Andrew Marvel Esq; 1674
Attributed To:
Andrew Marvell
Title:
Poems on affairs of state [vol I] [T108847]
Page No(s):
pp.106-112
Poem Title:
A Dialogue between two Horses.
Attribution:
By Andrew Marvell, Esq; 1674
Attributed To:
Andrew Marvell
Title:
Poems on affairs of state [vol. I] [N12193 part 1]
Page No(s):
pp.106-112
Poem Title:
A Dialogue between two Horses.
Attribution:
By Andrew Marvel Esq; 1674
Attributed To:
Andrew Marvell
Title:
Poems on affairs of state [vol. I] [T144919]
Page No(s):
pp.106-112
Poem Title:
A Dialogue between two Horses.
Attribution:
By Andrew Marvell, Esq; 1674
Attributed To:
Andrew Marvell
Title:
Poems on affairs of state [vol. I] [T144920 part 1]
Page No(s):
pp.106-112
Poem Title:
A Dialogue between two Horses.
Attribution:
By Andrew Marvel Esq; 1674
Attributed To:
Andrew Marvell
Title:
Poems on affairs of State: from the time of Oliver Cromwell to the abdication of K. James the second. [ESTC R26563]
Page No(s):
pp. 106-12
Poem Title:
A Dialogue between two Horses.
Attribution:
By Andrew Marvell, Esq; 1674.
Attributed To:
Andrew Marvell
Title:
Poems on affairs of state: from the time of Oliver Cromwell to the abdication of K. James the second. [ESTC R26892]
Page No(s):
pp. 114-20
Poem Title:
A Dialogue Between two Horses.
Attribution:
by A. Marvell, Esq; 1674.
Attributed To:
Andrew Marvell
Title:
The second part of the collection of poems on affairs of state [ESTC R10478]
Page No(s):
pp.1-6
Poem Title:
A Dialogue Between two Horses.
Attribution:
By A. M------l, Esq;.
Attributed To:
Andrew Marvell