Westminster is a mill that grinds all causes
- DMI number:
- 41933
- First Line:
- Westminster is a mill that grinds all causes
- Last Line:
- The toll is oft made greater than the grist
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain abab, Epigram, and Satire
- Themes:
- City[Westminster.] and The law
- Author:
- Sir John Davies
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Alexander B. Grosart comments that this and other epigrams 'have the ring of Davies in them'. Grosart, ed., The Works in Verse and Prose [...] of Sir John Davies, 3 vols (1869-76), I: 311, 353.
- Title:
- A help to discourse [ESTC R218198]
- Page No(s):
- p.97
- Poem Title:
- Epig. 9. In Aulam West.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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