We frequently misplace esteem
- DMI number:
- 30411
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- We frequently misplace esteem
- Last Line:
- The thriving knaves that keep em poor
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Fable
- Themes:
- Fame and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The baboon and the poultry. Dearing and Beckwith (1974) II: 387-390.
- First Line:
- We frequently misplace esteem
- Last Line:
- We saw thee in thy proper shape
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The entertainer; containing great variety of instructive entertainment [Vol I] [T100454]
- Page No(s):
- pp.222-223
- Poem Title:
- To a young Nobleman
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Gay. Baboon and the poultry.
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