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Duty and not ambition is her aim

DMI number:
9610
First Line:
Duty and not ambition is her aim
Last Line:
The glorious pleasures of obedience
Poem Genre / Form:
Composite poem, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
Themes:
Characters, Virtue / vice, and Women / the female character
Related People
Author:
Katherine Philips
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
Partially an extract w. variants from Happyness ('Nature courts happiness although it be') Thomas (1990) I: 188-90.
Content/Publication
Title:
The agreeable variety. In two parts [T61602]
Page No(s):
p.188
Poem Title:
On Mrs. --------
Attribution:
Characters pick'd out of Mrs. Phillips's Poems, apply'd to several Persons
Attributed To:
Katherine Philips
Title:
The agreeable variety. In two parts. [T61568]
Page No(s):
p.188
Poem Title:
On Mrs. --------
Attribution:
Characters pick'd out of Mrs. Phillips's Poems, apply'd to several Persons
Attributed To:
Katherine Philips
Title:
The agreeable variety: being a miscellaneous collection in prose and verse from the works of the most celebrated authors [T61569]
Page No(s):
p.188
Poem Title:
On Mrs. --------
Attribution:
Characters pick'd out of Mrs. Phillips's Poems, apply'd to several Persons
Attributed To:
Katherine Philips