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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
Related People
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.
Content/Publication
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