Unlawful lust immoderate often brings
- DMI number:
- 15663
- First Line:
- Unlawful lust immoderate often brings
- Last Line:
- A loathing in the use of lawful things
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Francis Quarles
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'On Ahab'. Quarles, Fancies (1633): 76-77.
- 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.99
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Quarles
- Attributed To:
- Francis Quarles
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