We meet with fortune's shocks and bear her weights
- DMI number:
- 14804
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- We meet with fortune's shocks and bear her weights
- Last Line:
- By stooping not by standing at our heights
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence
- Author:
- Charles Aleyn
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Battaile of Poictiers. Aleyn (1633).
- 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. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.282
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Aleyn, Ibid
- Attributed To:
- Charles Aleyn
Poem Aliases
Aleyn. Battle of Poictiers.
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