Lo when prosperity too much prevails

DMI number:

17360

Poem Aliases

Stirling. Alexandraean Tragedy.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Lo when prosperity too much prevails

Last Line:

They move in state all swollen with fortune's winds

Poem Genre / Form:

Quatrain abab, Satire, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Verse-drama

Themes:

Ambition, Dunces, Fate / fortune / providence, and Travel[Barge]

Related People

Author:

William Alexander

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from the Alexandraean Tragedy Act 4 Scene 1. Stirling (1637).

Content/Publication

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.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Alexandrean Tragedy

Attributed To:

William Alexander