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Why so coy my lovely maid

DMI number:
6978
Poem Aliases
Anacreon. Ode 34.
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
First Line:
Why so coy my lovely maid
Last Line:
Me the lily you the rose
Poem Genre / Form:
Lyric, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Anacreontic, and Couplet
Themes:
Age and Sex / relations between the sexes
Related People
Author:
Ambrose Philips
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Segar (1937): 159.
Translated from:
Anacreon
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
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Content/Publication
Title:
Poetical Miscellanies: the sixth part [T142876]
Page No(s):
pp.282-283
Poem Title:
Anacreon, Ode 34.
Attribution:
By the same Hand [preceding poem unattributed]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
The sixth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
Page No(s):
p.74
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Page No(s):
p.127
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