Wretch that I am and is it come to this
- DMI number:
- 22046
- First Line:
- Wretch that I am and is it come to this
- Last Line:
- Farewell to victuals greatness and to you
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Fable, Couplet, and Lament
- Themes:
- Food and drink, Grief / sadness / melancholy, The happy man / contentment, Advice / moral precepts, Animals[Mouse], and Death
- Title:
- Poetical recreations consisting of original poems songs odes &c with several new translations. [ESTC R7698]
- Page No(s):
- pp. 59-61
- Poem Title:
- The Last Sayings of a Mouse, Lately Starved in a Cupboard. As they were taken in Short-hand by a Zealous Rat-catcher, who listend at the Key-hole of the Cupboard Door.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The rhapsody. Being a display of the wit and humour of past times [T62617]
- Page No(s):
- pp.83-84
- Poem Title:
- The Last Sayings of a Mouse lately starved in a Cupboard. As they were taken, in Short-Hand, by a zealous Ratcatcher who listen'd at the Keyhole of the Cup-board Door, 1681.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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