You beat your pate and fancy wit will come
- DMI number:
- 13475
- First Line:
- You beat your pate and fancy wit will come
- Last Line:
- Knock as you please there's nobody at home
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Couplet
- Themes:
- Dunces and Wit
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Twickenham edition VI: 348: possibly by Pope.
- Author:
- Jonathan Swift
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Swift Poems Project, Y54E ('Doubtfully by Swift')
- First Line:
- You beat your pate and fancy wit will come
- Last Line:
- Knock as you will there's nobody at home
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams [vol. 2] [T170823]
- Page No(s):
- CXL.
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. [Vol. II] [ESTC T130692]
- Page No(s):
- CXL.
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A Supplement to Dr. Swift's and Mr. Pope's Works [ECCO] [T48930]
- Page No(s):
- p.316
- Poem Title:
- Another
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Epigrams fresh gather'd from the conversation of the polite [N18487] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- On an empty Coxcomb.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellanies. The last volume [ECCO] [T202849]
- Page No(s):
- p.55
- Poem Title:
- Another
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellanies. The last volume [ECCO] [T229756]
- Page No(s):
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- Another
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The agreeable companion [ESTC T97919, P6248]
- Page No(s):
- p.351
- Poem Title:
- The Numscull.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. II. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- CCX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The new theatre of fun [T116718] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- The Numscull.
- 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.179
- Poem Title:
- CCX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Wit a-la-mode; or, Lord Chesterfield's witticisms [T101784] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- The Numscull.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86025]
- Page No(s):
- p.121
- Poem Title:
- XXXVI.
- Attribution:
- By Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86180]
- Page No(s):
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- By Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
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