But great examples keep some excellence
- DMI number:
- 14650
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- But great examples keep some excellence
- Last Line:
- And credit lose when long they near them stand
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Poem to the Earl of Orrery ('My lord I will hoist sail and all the wind). Works (1673): 275-286.
- 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.251
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir William Davenant
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
Poem Aliases
Davenant. To the Earl of Orrery.
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