The ladle
Details
Type: Index
Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/2524 (Lt 61 )
Title: The ladle
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior, Poems, p.125
Date(s): 1703
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/100439
Description
Notes: (The sceptics think)
First lines: The scepticks think 'twas long ago
Since gods came down incognito
Last lines: And to the coffin from the cradle
'Tis all a wish and all a ladle
Length: 170
Verse form: Couplets
Contents: Witty, humorous tale based on Ovid's story of Baucis and
Philemon, in which a farmer and his wife waste three wishes
granted them by two gods whom they entertain in their home