He that makes gold his wife but not his whore
- DMI number:
- 15000
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- He that makes gold his wife but not his whore
- Last Line:
- And dead no crow he is a happy man
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Joyfulness / happiness and The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- Thomas Dekker
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Bowers (1953-61): II, 145 (extract from 'The Honest Whore', Part 2, Act 1, Scene 2).
- 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.33
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dekker's Second Part of the honest Whore
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Dekker
Poem Aliases
Dekker. Honest Whore. Part 2. Act 1.
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