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Whilst maudlin whigs bewailed their Cato's fate

DMI number:
11782
First Line:
Whilst maudlin whigs bewailed their Cato's fate
Last Line:
For that road leads directly to the heart
Poem Genre / Form:
Satire and Couplet
Themes:
Part of the body, Politics, Scatological humour / bodily functions, Theatre, and Women / the female character
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Author:
Alexander Pope
Confidence:
Confident (50%)
Comments:
Twickenham edition VI: 99-100: 'the authorship of this epigram is not definitely established'.
Author:
Nicholas Rowe
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Chalmers (1810) IX: 475.
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Content/Publication
Title:
A Miscellaneous Collection of Poems, Songs and Epigrams. By several Hands (vol. 1) [T106190] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
p.112
Poem Title:
On a Lady's seeing Cato Acted.
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Title:
The St. James's miscellany [T193028]
Page No(s):
p.10
Poem Title:
On a Lady who shed her Water at seeing the Tragedy of Cato.
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