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A maid is like the golden ore

DMI number:
23767
Poem Aliases
Gay. Beggar's opera.
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
First Line:
A maid is like the golden ore
Last Line:
And is current in every house
Poem Genre / Form:
Octet ababcdcd and Song
Themes:
Money / wealth and Sex / relations between the sexes
Related People
Author:
John Gay
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from Beggar's Opera Act 1 Scene 5. Fuller (1983) II.
Content/Publication
Title:
The Comic Miscellany. Vol. I. [ESTC N51175]
Page No(s):
p.166
Poem Title:
Song 239 In Gay's Beggar's Opera.
Attribution:
Gay
Attributed To:
John Gay
Title:
The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol I] [T85787] [ecco]
Page No(s):
p.166
Poem Title:
Song 239. In Gay's Beggar's Opera.
Attribution:
Gay
Attributed To:
John Gay