Long lulled asleep with scornful fortune's lies

DMI number:

17177

Poem Aliases

Stirling. Croesus.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Long lulled asleep with scornful fortune's lies

Last Line:

One must be wretched once or young or old

Poem Genre / Form:

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

Themes:

Advice / moral precepts, Money / wealth, and Mythology[Croesus]

Related People

Author:

William Alexander

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from The Tragedy of Croesus, Act 5 Scene 2. 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):

pp.25-26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E. of Sterline's Croesus

Attributed To:

William Alexander