Have you no words but what are only good

DMI number:

17010

Poem Aliases

Davenant. Law against lovers.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Have you no words but what are only good

Last Line:

To hear of absolution when you die

Poem Genre / Form:

Verse-drama and Couplet

Themes:

Religion[Absolution] and Virtue / vice[Forgiveness - Inflexibility]

Related People

Author:

Sir William Davenant

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from The Law against Lovers Act 4 Scene 1. Works (1673).

Content/Publication

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.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Law against Lovers

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant