You saw our wife was chaste yet thoroughly tried
- DMI number:
- 3723
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- You saw our wife was chaste yet thoroughly tried
- Last Line:
- For every critic saved thou damnst a play
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Prologue
- Themes:
- Sex and bawdy humour, Sex / relations between the sexes, Theatre, and Women / the female character
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins accept attribution to Dryden: Gillespie and Hopkins, eds, The Dryden-Tonson Miscellanies, 1684-1709, 6 vols (London, 2008), I: cxv. However, the poem is not in Calif. or Hammond, and Southerne's authorship seems more likely.
- Author:
- Thomas Southerne
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Epilogue to The Disappointment. Southerne (1713) I: 152.
- Title:
- A collection and selection of English prologues and epilogues [vol 2] [T145232] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.87-88
- Poem Title:
- An Epilogue, [The Play Not Named.]
- Attribution:
- Dryden [on p. 87] Southerne [on p. 195]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas SoutherneJohn Dryden
- Title:
- Miscellany poems: the first part [T117015]
- Page No(s):
- pp.234-235
- Poem Title:
- An Epilogue.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- Prologues and epilogues, celebrated for their poetical merit [ecco] [N12159]
- Page No(s):
- pp.102-103
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue
- Attribution:
- by Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The first part of miscellany poems [N6906]
- Page No(s):
- pp.136-137
- Poem Title:
- An Epilogue.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The first part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.130-131
- Poem Title:
- An Epilogue.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Disappointment. Epilogue.
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