Before my projects all are finished
- DMI number:
- 6940
- First Line:
- Before my projects all are finished
- Last Line:
- And so is Sarah if she get no son
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Elegy and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death, Marriage, and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Daniel Baker
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- From 'Let me but have a wife, whate'er she be' to 'Tis not cause they want goodness, but these wit' T145151 (p. 347): extracts from Baker's The Wife ('Let me but have a Wife what e'er she be') Baker (1697): 17-18.
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- From 'A wife as tender and as true withal' to 'Those rudiments of reason did improve' T145151 (pp. 348-349): extracts with alterations from Dryden's Eleonora, a panegyrical poem dedicated to the memory of the late countess of Abingdon - Calif. III (1969): 240-1.
- Author:
- Robert Gould
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- From 'But shall? oh shall this - best of women go' to 'Shall e'er the springs that water grief be dry? / No! No!' (p. 345); 'For she by virtue does assert her blood / And values less her birth than being good' (p. 347); 'She did the noblest modern instance prove / Of joy in wedlock and of truth in love' (p. 347). Extracts w. variants from 'The Mourning Swain, a Funeral Eclogue'. Gould (1709) I: 375-391. Query: attribution?
- First Line:
- Let me but have a wife whatever she be
- Last Line:
- Is not cause those want goodness but these wit
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Athenianism: or the new projects of Mr. John Dunton [T145151]
- Page No(s):
- pp.345-350
- Poem Title:
- Project XVI. The Marry'd Widower; or Dunton in Mourning for the Death of his living Wife, and New Life of his dead Friend, a Paradox...
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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