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.]
- 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.
- 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
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