Will fortune never come with both hands full
- DMI number:
- 14789
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Will fortune never come with both hands full
- Last Line:
- That have abundance and enjoy it not
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence
- Author:
- William Shakespeare
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 2 Henry IV Act 4 Scene 3.
- 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.279
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shakespear's Second Part of K. Henry IV.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]
- Page No(s):
- p.145
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak. Hen. IV.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
Poem Aliases
Shakespeare. 2 Henry IV.
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