They cannot want who wish not to have more
- DMI number:
- 5950
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- They cannot want who wish not to have more
- Last Line:
- Who ever said an anchoret was poor
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Act 3 of Dryden's Secret Love: or The Maiden Queen. Calif. IX (1967): 156.
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.102
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]
- Page No(s):
- p.53
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr. Sec. Love.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Dryden. Secret Love.
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