Put on your scholar hats, please!
Anonymous portrait of a scholar or preacher
1529, public domain Wikimedia
Walters Art Museum
QUESTION:
Working on a novel set some centuries ago, and I'm trying to figure out if I made these lines up in imitation of certain seventeenth-century poets (who? Butler?), or whether it is, indeed, a seventeenth-century couplet, maybe something like the tetrameter Hudibras:
To find if woman owns a
1529, public domain Wikimedia
Walters Art Museum
QUESTION:
Working on a novel set some centuries ago, and I'm trying to figure out if I made these lines up in imitation of certain seventeenth-century poets (who? Butler?), or whether it is, indeed, a seventeenth-century couplet, maybe something like the tetrameter Hudibras:
To find if woman owns a
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