Conversing with your sprightly boys
- DMI number:
- 30510
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Conversing with your sprightly boys
- Last Line:
- But never give a blockhead sense
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Fable
- Themes:
- Education and Parents and children
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Owl, the Swan, the Cock, the Spider, the Ass, and the Farmer. Dearing and Beckwith (1974) II: 427-431.
- First Line:
- Conversing with your sprightly boys
- Last Line:
- The blockhead had appeared an ass
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The entertainer; containing great variety of instructive entertainment [Vol II] [T100454]
- Page No(s):
- pp.114-116
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Gay. The owl, the swan, the cock, the spider, the ass, and the farmer.
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