Rule of itself's a toil and none would bear it
- DMI number:
- 14946
- First Line:
- Rule of itself's a toil and none would bear it
- Last Line:
- And close revenge they'll share it
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Alexander Brome
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Politician ('What madness is't for him that's wise'). Chalmers (1810) VI: 659.
- 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.20
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Alex. Brome
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Brome
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