His fate is nobler who deserves but fails
- DMI number:
- 16531
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- His fate is nobler who deserves but fails
- Last Line:
- Than his who merits not and yet prevails
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Roger Boyle
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The Black Prince' Act 3. Boyle (1739) I: 1-128.
- 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.244
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- E. of Orrery's Black Prince
- Attributed To:
- Roger Boyle
Poem Aliases
Boyle. The Black Prince.
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