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‘Come, by the nymphs, I pr’ythee play’

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Poem details

‘Come, by the nymphs, I pr’ythee play’

METADATA

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‘Come, by the nymphs, I pr’ythee play’

Poet(s)

Theocritus

Credits

Translator

Price, Fitzjames Tucker

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 41:258, 433, April 1837.

First line

Come, by the nymphs, I pr’ythee play

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Greek

Document status

Generated: The file was automatically generated from metadata in the project metadata database.

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Notes and attribution research

Included in the unsigned prose essay Our Two Vases, by John Wilson (429-48). (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 14130

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “‘Come, by the nymphs, I pr’ythee play’,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.9beta, University of Victoria, 18th March 2024, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1837/pom_14130_come_by_the_nymphs_i_prythee.html.

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