What cannot be preserved when fortune takes
- DMI number:
- 17084
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- What cannot be preserved when fortune takes
- Last Line:
- He robs himself that spends a bootless grief
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Admonition, Extract / snippet from longer work, Verse-drama, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence, Grief / sadness / melancholy, and Virtue / vice[Patience]
- Author:
- William Shakespeare
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Othello Act 1 Scene 3.
- Title:
- [vol. 3] 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 III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shakespear's Othello
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
Poem Aliases
Shakespeare. Othello.
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