This self conceit is a most dangerous shelf
- DMI number:
- 13992
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- This self conceit is a most dangerous shelf
- Last Line:
- Can never fail to fall in many snares
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain abab and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Manners
- Author:
- William Alexander
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Tragedy of Croesus Act 2 Scene 2. Stirling (1637).
- 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. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.139
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- E. of Sterline's Croesus
- Attributed To:
- William Alexander
Poem Aliases
Stirling. Croesus.
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