The love of kings is like the blowing of
- DMI number:
- 15876
- First Line:
- The love of kings is like the blowing of
- Last Line:
- King's love Jove and lighning
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and The monarchy (heads of state)
- Author:
- John Lyly
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Lyly (1584): E3r (extract from 'Campaspe', Act 4, Scene 4).
- 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.122-123
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lilly's Alexander and Campaspe
- Attributed To:
- John Lyly
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