Authority Cited: Widow and Cat
Author name and dates: Swift or Prior (see entries for)
BKG Bio-tweet: Abel Boyer’s “Political State”, 1720, p. 519: attributed to Swift or Prior – per Robert Anderson, Poets of GB, 1795
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
The Political State of Great Britain, being an impartial account of the most material occurrences, ecclesiastical, civil, and military, in a monthly letter to a friend in Holland (1711-29, in 38 vols.)
Tell me, perfidious, was it fit
To make my cream a perquisite,
And steal to mend your wages. Widow and Cat.
Author name and dates: Swift or Prior (see entries for)
BKG Bio-tweet: Abel Boyer’s “Political State”, 1720, p. 519: attributed to Swift or Prior – per Robert Anderson, Poets of GB, 1795
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
The Political State of Great Britain, being an impartial account of the most material occurrences, ecclesiastical, civil, and military, in a monthly letter to a friend in Holland (1711-29, in 38 vols.)
- Widow and Cat, Abel Boyer’s “Political State”, 1720, p. 519; perfidious; perquisite
Tell me, perfidious, was it fit
To make my cream a perquisite,
And steal to mend your wages. Widow and Cat.