The wind was high the window shakes
- DMI number:
- 30352
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The wind was high the window shakes
- Last Line:
- Virtue resides on earth no more
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Fable
- Themes:
- Money / wealth and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Miser and Plutus. Dearing and Beckwith (1974) II: 308-309.
- First Line:
- The wind was high the window shakes
- Last Line:
- Upbraid the passive sword with guilt
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The entertainer; containing great variety of instructive entertainment [Vol I] [T100454]
- Page No(s):
- p.176
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Gay. Miser and Plutus.
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