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Begin my lord in early youth

DMI number:
30410
Poem Aliases
Gay. Packhorse and the carrier.
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
First Line:
Begin my lord in early youth
Last Line:
Their merits heighten your disgrace
Poem Genre / Form:
Couplet, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Fable
Themes:
Advice / moral precepts and Virtue / vice
Related People
Author:
John Gay
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from The packhorse and the carrier. Dearing and Beckwith (1974) II: 416-419.
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Begin my lord in early youth
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Relationship:
Variant Of
Comments:
Content/Publication
Title:
The entertainer; containing great variety of instructive entertainment [Vol I] [T100454]
Page No(s):
pp.221-222
Poem Title:
To a young Nobleman
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed