For he whose breast is tender blood so cool
- DMI number:
- 17090
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- For he whose breast is tender blood so cool
- Last Line:
- It is the honey gainst a waspish wife
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work, Verse-drama, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Marriage[The shrew] and Virtue / vice[Patience - Humility - Tranquillity]
- Author:
- Thomas Dekker
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Bowers (1953-61): II, 108 (extract from 'The Honest Whore', Part 2, Act 5, Scene 2).
- 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):
- pp.13-14
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dekker's First Part of the Honest Whore
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Dekker
Poem Aliases
Dekker. Honest Whore. Part 2. Act 5.
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