The honour is overpaid
- DMI number:
- 13776
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The honour is overpaid
- Last Line:
- When he that did the act is commentator
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- James Shirley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Shirley (1659): 106 (extract from 'The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses').
- 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. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.90
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shirley's Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for Achilles's Armour
- Attributed To:
- James Shirley
Poem Aliases
Shirley. Contention of Ajax and Ulysses.
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