Dear Sim by wits extolled by wits cried down

DMI number:

18816

First Line:

Dear Sim by wits extolled by wits cried down

Last Line:

But he who wrote the verses was Mat Prior

Poem Genre / Form:

Epigram and Quintain / quintet aabbb

Themes:

High society / the court and Poetry / literature / writing

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Dedicatee:

Simon Harcourt

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'To the Honourable Simon Harcourt, Esq', T75645, T75657, T75638

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Content/Publication

Title:

Poems on several occasions [T75638] [ECCO]

Page No(s):

p.311

Poem Title:

To the Honourable Simon Harcourt, Esq; Occasioned By his Fathering the Verses to the Lady Catharine Hyde.

Attribution:

By Dr. Sewell

Attributed To:

George Sewell