While Shallow-Brains scribbles his Phillis's name

DMI number:

18131

First Line:

While Shallow-Brains scribbles his Phillis's name

Last Line:

Lest he should grow drunk and forget her

Poem Genre / Form:

Epigram and Quatrain abab

Themes:

Dunces, Food and drink, and Sex / relations between the sexes

Content/Publication

Title:

Cupid’s metamorphoses or, Love in all Shapes. Being The Second and last Volume of the Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison, Late of Sidney College, Cambridge. [ESTC T11213]

Page No(s):

p.225

Poem Title:

On a Drunkard's writing his Mistress's Name on a Drinking-Glass.

Attribution:

Mr. William Pattison (title page)

Attributed To:

William Pattison