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You must not every worm promiscuous use

DMI number:
30629
Poem Aliases
Gay. Rural Sports.
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
First Line:
You must not every worm promiscuous use
Last Line:
Stretching his quivering fins and gasping dies
Poem Genre / Form:
Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Triplet, Didactic verse, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
Themes:
Agriculture, Nature, and Weather
Related People
Author:
John Gay
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from Rural Sports (Canto 1). Dearing and Beckwith (1974) I: 41-58.
Content/Publication
Title:
The art of poetry on a new plan [vol I] [ESTC T56146] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
pp.185-187
Poem Title:
in his Rural Sports
Attribution:
Mr. Gay
Attributed To:
John Gay