Things over rank do never kindly bear
- DMI number:
- 17358
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Things over rank do never kindly bear
- Last Line:
- Sits above fortune and controlleth time
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Admonition, Ottava rima / abababcc, and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Ambition, Nature[Decay], and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Michael Drayton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Legend of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex. Chalmers (1810) IV: 154-162.
- Title:
- [vol. 3] 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 III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Drayton in the Mirror for Magistrates
- Attributed To:
- Michael Drayton
Poem Aliases
Drayton. Thomas Cromwell.
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