True wit is like the brilliant stone

DMI number:

22997

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True wit is like the brilliant stone

Last Line:

And sparkles as it wounds

Poem Genre / Form:

Epigram and Quatrain abab

Themes:

Wit

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Content/Publication

Title:

Poems written occasionally by the late John Winstanley...interspers'd with many others, by several ingenious hands [vol II] [N21265] [ecco]

Page No(s):

p.142

Poem Title:

On Wit.

Attribution:

Dr. Winstanley's Poems.

Attributed To:

John Winstanley