Contented with an old estate
- DMI number:
- 25964
- First Line:
- Contented with an old estate
- Last Line:
- Nor wanton luxury made less
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- Edmund Waller
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Epitaph on Sir George Speke ('Under this stone lies virtue youth'). Chalmers (1810) VIII: 82.
- First Line:
- Under this stone lies virtue youth
- Last Line:
- Though young like fruit that's ripe he fell
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select and Remarkable Epitaphs [Vol. 2] [T27439] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.20
- Poem Title:
- Waller on Sir George Speks.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A select collection of epitaphs carefully collected from the tombstones of the most eminent personages in England Scotland and Ireland [T131017] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.8
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Waller on Sir George Speke.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
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