Begin my lord in early youth
- DMI number:
- 30410
- 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
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The packhorse and the carrier. Dearing and Beckwith (1974) II: 416-419.
- First Line:
- Begin my lord in early youth
- Last Line:
- An ass should like an ass be treated
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- 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
Poem Aliases
Gay. Packhorse and the carrier.
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