If thou be wise no glorious fortune choose
- DMI number:
- 6023
- First Line:
- If thou be wise no glorious fortune choose
- Last Line:
- To kings or to the favourites of kings
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- Abraham Cowley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Cowley's Paraphrase upon the Tenth Epistle of the First Book of Horace ('Horace to Fuscus Aristius'), Waller (1906): 417.
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- pp.521-522
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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