What business or what hope brings thee to town
- DMI number:
- 6317
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- What business or what hope brings thee to town
- Last Line:
- None but has killed his man or writ his play
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Alternate rhyme [ababcdcd...], and Couplet
- Themes:
- City and Manners
- Translated from:
- Martial
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Sir Charles Sedley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Pinto (1928) I: 53.
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixed, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [Vol. I] [ESTC T130692]
- Page No(s):
- CCCXLII.
- Poem Title:
- Advice to Honestus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixd, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [ESTC T41]
- Page No(s):
- CCCXL.
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The poetical works of the honourable Sir Charles Sedley Bar...with a new miscelany of poems by several of the most eminent hands [T132211]
- Page No(s):
- p.75
- Poem Title:
- To Sextus. Lib. 2. Ep. 38
- Attribution:
- Collected under Sedley's name.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Charles Sedley
- Title:
- The poetical works of the honourable Sir Charles Sedley Baronet...with a new miscellany of poems by several of the most eminent hands [T72752]
- Page No(s):
- p.75
- Poem Title:
- To Sextus. Lib. 2. Ep. 38.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Sedley's name.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Charles Sedley
Poem Aliases
Martial. Book 2 Epigram 38.
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