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
- 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.
- First Line:
- While maudlin whigs deplored their Cato's fate
- Last Line:
- For that road leads directly to the heart
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Whilst maudlin whigs deplore their Cato's fate
- Last Line:
- For this road leads directly to the heart
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- 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.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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