How fond are men of rule and place
- DMI number:
- 30188
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- How fond are men of rule and place
- Last Line:
- In hopes to be supreme in wit
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Fable
- Themes:
- Politics and Wit
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Dearing and Beckwith (1974) II: 327-328.
- First Line:
- How fond are men of rule and place
- Last Line:
- Lions and noble beasts despise
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The entertainer; containing great variety of instructive entertainment [Vol I] [T100454]
- Page No(s):
- p.144
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Gay. Lion and the cub.
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