"Let Jervase gratis paint, and Frowd / Save Three-pence, and his Soul"
— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Author
Work Title
Date
1775
Metaphor
"Let Jervase gratis paint, and Frowd / Save Three-pence, and his Soul"
Metaphor in Context
To drink and droll be Rowe allow'd
Till the third watchman toll;
Let Jervase gratis paint, and Frowd
Save Three-pence, and his Soul.
(ll. 9-12, p. 245)
Till the third watchman toll;
Let Jervase gratis paint, and Frowd
Save Three-pence, and his Soul.
(ll. 9-12, p. 245)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "pence" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. A One-Volume Edition of the Twickenham Text with Selected Annotations. Ed. John Butt. New Haven: Yale UP, 1963.
Date of Entry
08/23/2005
Date of Review
04/26/2007
