Strict laws are like steel bodice good for growing limbs
- DMI number:
- 16043
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Strict laws are like steel bodice good for growing limbs
- Last Line:
- But when the joints are knit they are not helps | But burdens
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- The law
- Author:
- Sir Francis Fane
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from 'Love in the Dark, or The Man of Business' Act 5 (1675, ESTC R16385).
- 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.154-155
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Fane's Love in the dark
- Attributed To:
- Sir Francis Fane
Poem Aliases
Fane. Love in the Dark, or The Man of Business.
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