Man's curse is things forbid still to pursue
- DMI number:
- 16405
- First Line:
- Man's curse is things forbid still to pursue
- Last Line:
- What's freely offered not to hold worth view
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Hopelessness / vanity of life
- Author:
- Robert Daborne
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'A Christian Turned Turk' Act 1 Scene 4. Daborne (1612).
- 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.216
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dauborne's Christian turned Turk
- Attributed To:
- Robert Daborne
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