Ants live safely till they have gotten wings
- DMI number:
- 16472
- First Line:
- Ants live safely till they have gotten wings
- Last Line:
- Without pride
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Ambition
- Author:
- John Lyly
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Lyly (1594): E1r (extract from 'Campaspe', Act 4, Scene 2).
- 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):
- pp.231-232
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lilly's Alexander and Campaspe
- Attributed To:
- John Lyly
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