By the butcher's boy on Tuesday night
- DMI number:
- 8641
- First Line:
- By the butcher's boy on Tuesday night
- Last Line:
- Your crazy brains and cool your mettle
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Epistle
- Themes:
- Poetry / literature / writing[Hudibras] and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- Samuel Butler
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Like the other parts attributed to Butler in this vol., these lines use hudibrastic technique, and epithets lifted from the poem; they are probably part of the many continuations, additions, and parodies of the poem, rather than by Butler himself, as far as can be known.
- Title:
- Familiar letters of love, gallantry and several occasions by the wits of the last and present age [Vol I] [T64796]
- Page No(s):
- pp.11-17
- Poem Title:
- The Widow's Answer to the Knight.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Butler's name
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Familiar letters of love, gallantry, and several other occasions by the wits of the last and present age [vol I] [T64784]
- Page No(s):
- pp.11-17
- Poem Title:
- The Widow's Answer to the Knight.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Butler's name
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
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