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Whilst maudlin whigs deplore their Cato's fate

DMI number:
8008
First Line:
Whilst maudlin whigs deplore their Cato's fate
Last Line:
For this road leads directly to the heart
Poem Genre / Form:
Epigram and Couplet
Themes:
Politics, Scatological humour / bodily functions, and Theatre
Related People
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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While maudlin whigs deplored their Cato's fate
Last Line:
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Whilst maudlin whigs bewailed their Cato's fate
Last Line:
For that road leads directly to the heart
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Content/Publication
Title:
A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixed, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [Vol. I] [ESTC T130692]
Page No(s):
XCIX.
Poem Title:
On a Lady who shed her Water at seeing the Tragedy of Cato.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
A collection of epigrams. To which is prefix’d, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [ESTC T41]
Page No(s):
CVIII.
Poem Title:
On a Lady who shed her Water at seeing the Tragedy of Cato.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
Miscellanea: the second volume [T39419] [partial reissue of T39417 vol. 2; reissue of T82103]
Page No(s):
p.32
Poem Title:
Epigram on a Lady who shed her Water at seeing the Tragedy of Cato.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
The agreeable companion [ESTC T97919, P6248]
Page No(s):
p.226
Poem Title:
On a Lady who shed her Water, on seeing the Tragedy of Cato.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
The merry fellow [T128505] [ecco]
Page No(s):
p.293
Poem Title:
On a Lady who shed her Water at seeing the Tragedy of Cato.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
The Poetical Entertainer [No. V] [T125456]
Page No(s):
p.3
Poem Title:
Upon a Tory Lady who happen'd to open her Floodgates at the Tragedy of Cato. An Epigram.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
The Comic Miscellany. Vol. II. [ESTC N51175]
Page No(s):
p.133
Poem Title:
LV. On a Lady who shed her Water at seeing the Tragedy of Cato.
Attribution:
By Nich. Rowe, Esq;
Attributed To:
Nicholas Rowe
Title:
The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol II] [T85787] [ecco]
Page No(s):
p.133
Poem Title:
LV. On a Lady who shed her Water at seeing the Tragedy of Cato.
Attribution:
By Nich. Rowe, Esq;
Attributed To:
Nicholas Rowe