Be absolute for death or death or life
- DMI number:
- 16094
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Be absolute for death or death or life
- Last Line:
- That makes these odds all even
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Death and Hopelessness / vanity of life
- Author:
- William Shakespeare
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Measure for Measure Act 3 Scene 1.
- First Line:
- Reason thus with life
- Last Line:
- That makes these odds all even
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- 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):
- pp.164-165
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shakespear's Measure for Measure
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
Poem Aliases
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure.
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