The miser's gold the painted cloud
- DMI number:
- 15866
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The miser's gold the painted cloud
- Last Line:
- The studies to preserve mankind
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from News from Plymouth Act 4. Works (1673).
- First Line:
- The miser gold the painted cloud
- Last Line:
- That studies to preserve mankind
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- 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):
- p.120
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir W. Davenant's News from Plymouth
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
Poem Aliases
Davenant. News from Plymouth.
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