For he who secrets power's chief treasure spends
- DMI number:
- 17252
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- For he who secrets power's chief treasure spends
- Last Line:
- Since power seeks great confederates more than friends
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain abab and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Friendship[Incompatible with power]
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Gondibert (Book 3 Canto 1). Chalmers (1810) VI: 375-431.
- Title:
- [vol. 3] The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries [vol III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Ibid [i.e. Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert]
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
Poem Aliases
Davenant. Gondibert.
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