While kings are strong
- DMI number:
- 15921
- First Line:
- While kings are strong
- Last Line:
- They both grow pale if once they find contempt
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and The monarchy (heads of state)
- Author:
- John Marston
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The Wonder of Women; or, The Tragedie of Sophonisba' Act 1 Scene 1. Halliwell-Phillipps (1856) I: 153.
- 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. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.130
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Marston's Sophonisba
- Attributed To:
- John Marston
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