When power that may command so much descends
- DMI number:
- 17242
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- When power that may command so much descends
- Last Line:
- Their bondage whom it stoops to it intends
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work, Verse-drama, and Couplet
- Themes:
- High society / the court
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Sejanus: His Fall Act 1. Bevington (2012) II.
- 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.37
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson's Sejanus
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
Poem Aliases
Jonson. Sejanus.
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