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When Phoebus first did Daphne love

DMI number:
11227
First Line:
When Phoebus first did Daphne love
Last Line:
To be a tree if she could choose
Poem Genre / Form:
Couplet and Fable
Themes:
Carpe diem, Mythology[Phoebus and Daphne], and Sex / relations between the sexes
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Author:
John Dowland
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
LION. This is a version, with some variants and an extra verse, of 'When Phoebus first did Daphne loue' in Dowland's Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires. (London, 1603)
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