They are the noblest benefits and sink
- DMI number:
- 14873
- First Line:
- They are the noblest benefits and sink
- Last Line:
- Run from the conscience of it if they could
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from An Epistle to Sir Edward Sackville now Earle of Dorset. Bevington (2012) VII: 107-114.
- 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.8-9
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson, Ibid
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
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