Greatness hath its cankers worms and moths
- DMI number:
- 14961
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Greatness hath its cankers worms and moths
- Last Line:
- The substance of their makers into themselves
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Corruption
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Sejanus: His Fall Act 3. Bevington (2012) II.
- Title:
- 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 II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson's Sejanus
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
Poem Aliases
Jonson. Sejanus.
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