So politicians thrive | That with their crabbed faces and sly tricks
- DMI number:
- 17222
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- So politicians thrive | That with their crabbed faces and sly tricks
- Last Line:
- Then the whole body follows
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Blank verse, Satire, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Verse-drama
- Themes:
- Animals[Fox], Manners, and Politics
- Author:
- John Ford
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Ford (1652): 1st pagination, 59 (extract from 'The Louers Melancholy', Act 4, Scene 1).
- 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.33
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- John Ford's Lover's Melancholy
- Attributed To:
- John Ford
Poem Aliases
Ford. Lover's Melancholy. Act 4.
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