Because forsooth you're young and fair
- DMI number:
- 42606
- First Line:
- Because forsooth you're young and fair
- Last Line:
- And kiss and hug most decently
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Anacreontic, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Age and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Translated from:
- Anacreon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Thomas Wood
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Michael Hilton, 'The Anacreontea in England to 1683', 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, 1980) II: 44.
- First Line:
- Because forsooth you're young and fair
- Last Line:
- Thine be red the white all mine
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek [ESTC R7394]
- Page No(s):
- pp.67-68
- Poem Title:
- XXXI. To his Young Mistriss.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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