For power is proud till it look down to fear
- DMI number:
- 17244
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- For power is proud till it look down to fear
- Last Line:
- Though only safe by ever looking there
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Advice, Extract / snippet from longer work, Verse-drama, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts[Exercise of power]
- Author:
- Fulke Greville
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'Alaham' Act 1 Scene 2. Greville (1633): 1-79.
- 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.38
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lord Brooke's Alaham
- Attributed To:
- Fulke Greville
Poem Aliases
Greville. Alaham.
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