Folly and vice are easy to describe
- DMI number:
- 4153
- First Line:
- Folly and vice are easy to describe
- Last Line:
- But from the uncorrupted blood of kings
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Panegyric and Couplet
- Themes:
- Patriotism / glory of the British nation, Politics, The monarchy (heads of state)[Duke of York (later James II)], and War
- Author:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Niemayer (1939): 627-28. Chalmers (1810) VIII: 266.
- Title:
- Poems by the Earl of Roscomon. To which is added, An essay on poetry, by the Earl of Mulgrave, now Duke of Buckingham. Together with Poems by Mr. Richard Duke. [T132427]
- Page No(s):
- pp.122-124
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue Spoken to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, at Edinburgh.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- Poetical miscellanies: the fifth part [T161282]
- Page No(s):
- pp.41-43
- Poem Title:
- Spoken to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, at the Theatre in Edinburgh.
- Attribution:
- Written by the Right Honourable the Earl of Roscomon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The minor poets or the works of the most celebrated authors [vol 1] [N6033]
- Page No(s):
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue spoken to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, at Edinburgh.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The works of celebrated authors of whose writings there are but small remains [vol I] [T145013] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue spoken to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, at Edinburgh.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [2nd ed] [T185023] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue Spoken to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, at Edinburgh.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [N25943] [ECCO] (1751)
- Page No(s):
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue Spoken to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, at Edinburgh.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [T79268]
- Page No(s):
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue Spoken to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, at Edinburgh.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
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