Hypocrisy's a delicate white devil
- DMI number:
- 14537
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Hypocrisy's a delicate white devil
- Last Line:
- Superstitiously adore you for abusing them
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- James Shirley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Shirley (1630): 46 (extract from 'The Gratefull Seruant').
- 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. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.225-226
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shirley's Grateful Servant
- Attributed To:
- James Shirley
Poem Aliases
Shirley. Grateful Servant.
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