Your wife's the plainest piece a man can see
- DMI number:
- 27325
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Your wife's the plainest piece a man can see
- Last Line:
- The rakes besiege her you're a man of parts
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Imitation / translation / paraphrase
- Themes:
- Marriage, Sex / relations between the sexes, and Women / the female character
- Translated from:
- Martial
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select epigrams of Martial [ECCO] [N21209]
- Page No(s):
- p.7
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
Poem Aliases
Martial. Epigrams. Book 1. Epigram 74
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