Fair Susan did her wifehood well maintain

DMI number:

24091

First Line:

Fair Susan did her wifehood well maintain

Last Line:

Full marvellous I wote were swilk denial

Poem Genre / Form:

Couplet and Imitation (in the style of...)

Themes:

Sex / relations between the sexes and Women / the female character

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Author:

Matthew Prior

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Wright and Spears I: 400.

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Content/Publication

Title:

The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol II] [T85787] [ecco]

Page No(s):

p.171

Poem Title:

CLXXXII. In Chaucer's Style.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior