Melancholy is | The root as well of every apish frenzy
- DMI number:
- 16486
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Melancholy is | The root as well of every apish frenzy
- Last Line:
- Laughter and mirth as dullness
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Grief / sadness / melancholy
- Author:
- John Ford
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Ford (1652), 1st pagination, 49 (extract from 'The Louers Melancholy', Act 3, Scene 3).
- 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.235
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- John Ford's Lover's Melancholy
- Attributed To:
- John Ford
Poem Aliases
Ford. Lover's Melancholy. Act 3.
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