MEthinks this World is oddly made
Title:
The ATHEIST and the ACORN.
Primary Texts:
No MS; 1713 Misc, 202-4;
Secondary Eds:
Rpt of 1713: 1903 Reynolds, 169-70; rpts of 1903 Reynolds: 1928 Murray, 100-1; 1930 Fausset, 77-8; 1979 Rogers AF, 110-1; 1987 Thompson, 69-70.
Source:
La Fontaine, "Le Gland and la Citrouille," IX, 4, 249.
18C:
Rpt of 1713: 1757 Colman, 248-9.
19C:
Rpt of 1713: 1825 Dyce, 134-6; 1853 Rowton, 106-7; 1861 Williams, 146-7.
20C:
Rpt of 1713/1903: 1905 Tutin, 27-8; 1969 Tillotson, 795.
Comment:
Overrated Aesopic fable favored by every political establishment that ever existed. That Finch chose this coheres with her view of free-thinkers or libertines found in her Biblical paraphrases on Solomon, her poems in 1696 Tate, and the anonymous 1711 pamphlet which has been attributed to her.
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