Consider man in every sphere
- DMI number:
- 23344
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Consider man in every sphere
- Last Line:
- With cheerful heart he mounts the wheel
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet and Fable
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence and The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Dearing and Beckwith (1974) II: 431-434.
- First Line:
- Consider man in every sphere
- Last Line:
- Show me the happier man than you
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A Collection of Modern Fables [ESTC T85473]
- Page No(s):
- pp.152-155
- Poem Title:
- Fable LXXIV. The Cook-Maid, the Turnspit, and the Ox.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellaneous pieces consisting of select poetry, methods of improvement in husbandry, gardening, and various other subjects useful to families [2nd ed] [T127413] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.27-30
- Poem Title:
- The Cook-maid, the Turnspit, and the Ox. A Fable. To a Poor Man.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellaneous pieces consisting of select poetry, methods of improvement in husbandry, gardening, and various other subjects useful to families [3rd ed] [39 parts] [T112124] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.27-30
- Poem Title:
- The Cook-maid, the Turnspit, and the Ox. A Fable. To a Poor Man.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellaneous pieces consisting of select poetry, methods of improvement in husbandry, gardening, and various other subjects useful to families [4thed] [T199384] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.27-30
- Poem Title:
- The Cook-maid, the Turnspit, and the Ox. A Fable. To a Poor Man.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellaneous pieces consisting of select poetry, methods of improvement in husbandry, gardening, and various other subjects useful to families [T125628] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.27-30
- Poem Title:
- The Cook-maid, the Turnspit, and the Ox. A Fable. To a Poor Man.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The complete fabulist [ecco] [T127912]
- Page No(s):
- pp.232-235
- Poem Title:
- LXV. The Cook-Maid, the Turnspit, and the Ox. To a Poor Man.
- Attribution:
- Part of 'Fables by Mr. John Gay'.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- Title:
- The complete fabulist [ecco] [T162293]
- Page No(s):
- pp.232-235
- Poem Title:
- LXV. The Cook-maid, the Turnspit, and the Ox. To a Poor Man.
- Attribution:
- Part of 'Fables by Mr John Gay'.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
Poem Aliases
Gay. The cookmaid, the turnspit and the ox.
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