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
- 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 bewailed their Cato's fate
- Last Line:
- For that road leads directly to the heart
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- 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 prefixd, 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
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