You beat your pate and fancy wit will come
- DMI number:
- 24945
- First Line:
- You beat your pate and fancy wit will come
- Last Line:
- Knock as you will there's nobody at home
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Distich
- Themes:
- Dunces and Wit
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- 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 please there's nobody at home
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of select epigrams in which are many originals never before printed by the most eminent hands [T124651]
- Page No(s):
- p.110
- Poem Title:
- CCCLXXX.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86181] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- By Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
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