Tis greater care to keep than get a crown
- DMI number:
- 15875
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Tis greater care to keep than get a crown
- Last Line:
- Our princely virtues we should most esteem
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and The monarchy (heads of state)
- Author:
- Samuel Brandon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Brandon (1598): A7v (extract from 'The Tragicomoedie of Octavia', Act 1).
- 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):
- p.122
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Brandon's Octavia
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Brandon
Poem Aliases
Brandon. Virtuous Octavia.
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