Unactive wishes slow concessions find
- DMI number:
- 11307
- First Line:
- Unactive wishes slow concessions find
- Last Line:
- Where sleep's their business sleep should be their meat
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Composite poem, Admonition, Moral, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Edmund Arwaker
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Composite extract w. variants from 'Fable I. The Peasant and Hercules' (The Moral), 'Fable XV. The Gnat and Bee' (The Moral), and 'Fable LIV. The Smith and His Dog' (The Moral). Select Fables (1708), I: 1-2, 20-21, III: 270-271.
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems, original and translated, by several hands. [ESTC T125249]
- Page No(s):
- p.22-23
- Poem Title:
- On Idleness.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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