If fortune were so firm as she is frail
- DMI number:
- 16575
- First Line:
- If fortune were so firm as she is frail
- Last Line:
- They never need their great misfortunes rue
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence
- Author:
- John Higgins
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- LION: extract from Manlius / Parts added to The Mirror for Magistrates.
- 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.250
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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