Madmen sometimes on sudden flashes hit
- DMI number:
- 16383
- First Line:
- Madmen sometimes on sudden flashes hit
- Last Line:
- Of sense which seem remote and sound like wit
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Madness
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from To him who Prophecy'd a Succesles end of the Parliament, in the Year 1630 ('Frantic and foolish too can any curse'). Works (1673): 287-288.
- 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.211
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir W. Davenant On one that prophesy'd
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
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