Poor men are born to wrongs low are their ranks
- DMI number:
- 17238
- First Line:
- Poor men are born to wrongs low are their ranks
- Last Line:
- The more they're trod on the more they must give thanks
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work, Verse-drama, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Social order
- Author:
- Robert Daborne
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from 'The Poor Man's Comfort' Act 3. Daborne (1655).
- 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.37
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dauborne's [sic] Poor Man's Comfort
- Attributed To:
- Robert Daborne
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