Why will Delia thus retire
- DMI number:
- 22759
- First Line:
- Why will Delia thus retire
- Last Line:
- I believe the dose will do
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Receipt / recipe, Quatrain abab, and Song
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts, Grief / sadness / melancholy, and Illness, injury
- Author:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Lonsdale (1984): 146. Suarez (1997) VI: 398. Halsband and Grundy: 257-8.
- First Line:
- Though Delia oft retires
- Last Line:
- Often find one dose too much
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems by several hands, in three volumes [Vol.3] [T124507]
- Page No(s):
- pp.312-313
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to Cure the Vapours. Written to Lady J-----n.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [T115890] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.114-115
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to Cure the Vapours. Written to Lady J --- n.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. the Right Hon. L.M.W.M.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 1] [T144724] [ECCO] [OCTAVO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.114-115
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to Cure the Vapours. Written to Lady J----n.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. The Right Hon. L. M. W. M.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in three volumes, by several hands [T115891] [Vol.1] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.120-121
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to Cure the Vapours. Written to Lady J-----N.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [not attributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A select collection of original love letters, to which are sub-join'd poems by eminent ladies [T82903]
- Page No(s):
- pp.87-88
- Poem Title:
- Receipt for the Vapours. Written to Lady J--n.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. II. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- p.120
- Poem Title:
- Receipt to cure the Vapours.
- Attribution:
- Written by Lady J---N.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Lover's Manual. Being a choice collection of poems from the most approv'd modern authors. With several original pieces. [T95952] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.244-245
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to cure the Vapours.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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.120
- Poem Title:
- Receipt to cure the Vapours.
- Attribution:
- Written by Lady J--n.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of poems in four volumes by several hands Vol. 1 [T115888]
- Page No(s):
- pp.120-121
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to Cure the Vapours. Written to Lady J--N.
- Attribution:
- [By the Same.] i.e. L.M.W.M.
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes, by several hands [Vol. 1] [T144532]
- Page No(s):
- pp.114-115
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to Cure the Vapours. Written to Lady J--n.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. By the Right Hon. L.M.W.M. [p.82]]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [N44374] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.114-115
- Poem Title:
- Receipt for the Vapours. Written to Lady J----n.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. the Right Hon. L.M.W.M.]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 1] [T101653] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.133-134
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to cure the Vapours. Written to Lady J---n.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. the Right Hon. L.M.W.M.]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 1] [T124648] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.114-115
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to cure the Vapours. Written to Lady J---n.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. the Right Hon. L.M.W.M.]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 1] [T144724] [DUODECIMO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.114-115
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to cure the Vapours. Written to Lady J---n.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. the Right Hon. L.M.W.M.]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. With Notes [Vol 1] [T116246] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.125-126
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to cure the Vapours. Written to Lady J---n.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. the Right Hon. L.M.W.M.]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- Title:
- A collection of poems in three volumes, by several hands [T148949] [Vol. 1] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.120-121
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to Cure the Vapour. Written to Lady J-----N.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. By the Right Hon. L. M. W. M. [p.84]]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- Title:
- Additions to the works of Alexander Pope, Esq. [T5465] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.168-169
- Poem Title:
- By Lady Mary Wortley Montague, To Lady Irwin.
- Attribution:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montague
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- Title:
- Additions to the works of Alexander Pope, Esq. [T5466] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.164-165
- Poem Title:
- By Lady Mary Wortley Montague, To Lady Irwin.
- Attribution:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montague
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- Title:
- Poems by eminent ladies [vol 2] [T42592] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.183-184
- Poem Title:
- Receipt for the Vapours. Written to Lady J--n.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- Title:
- Poems by eminent ladies [vol 2] [T60050] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.153-154
- Poem Title:
- Receipt for the Vapours. Written to Lady J------n.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems By the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- Title:
- Poems by the most eminent ladies of Great-Britain and Ireland [T144911 vol. II]
- Page No(s):
- pp.183-184
- Poem Title:
- Receipt for the Vapours. Written to Lady J----n.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
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