Cook lawrel would needs have the devil his guest
- DMI number:
- 3973
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Cook lawrel would needs have the devil his guest
- Last Line:
- And send him good meat and mirth without end
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Lampoon, Quatrain abab, and Ballad
- Themes:
- Corruption, Food and drink, Social order, Supernatural, and Tobacco
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Gypsies Metamorphosed. Bevington (2012) V.
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [N70161]
- Page No(s):
- pp.142-144
- Poem Title:
- A Song, on the Devil's Arse of the Peak.
- Attribution:
- By Ben. Johnson
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.140-142
- Poem Title:
- A Song, on the Devil's Arse of the Peak.
- Attribution:
- By Ben. Johnson.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Title:
- Merry drollery compleat [ESTC R221825]
- Page No(s):
- pp. 214-7
- Poem Title:
- The feasting of the Divel by Ben Johnson.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Ben Jonson
Poem Aliases
Jonson. Gypsies Metamorphosed.
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