Ah when the means are gone that buy this praise
- DMI number:
- 16999
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Ah when the means are gone that buy this praise
- Last Line:
- Nor more willingly leaves winter such summer-birds are men
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Blank verse, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Verse-drama
- Themes:
- Animals[Swallow] and Virtue / vice[Fair-weather friends]
- Author:
- William Shakespeare
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Timon of Athens Act 2 Scene 2.
- Title:
- [vol. 3] 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 III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- p.2
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shakespear's Timon
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
Poem Aliases
Shakespeare. Timon of Athens.
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