Poverty thou bane of chastity

DMI number:

17234

Poem Aliases

Dekker and Webster. Westward Ho. Act 2.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Poverty thou bane of chastity

Last Line:

To find a woman chaste that's poor and fair

Poem Genre / Form:

Blank verse, Extract / snippet from longer work, Verse-drama, and Couplet

Themes:

Social order[Poverty], Virtue / vice, and Women / the female character[Chastity]

Related People

Author:

John Webster

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Bowers (1953-61): II, 341 (extract from 'Westward Ho', Act 2, Scene 2).

Author:

Thomas Dekker

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Bowers (1953-61): II, 341 (extract from 'Westward Ho', Act 2, Scene 2).

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.36-37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dekker and Webster's Westward Hoe

Attributed To:

John Webster

Thomas Dekker