Fools back their feeble want of sense
- DMI number:
- 9506
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Fools back their feeble want of sense
- Last Line:
- As when tis in a wrong belief
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Dunces
- Author:
- Samuel Butler
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Hudibras. Wilders (1967): 247, 265 (III, ii).
- First Line:
- For fools are stubborn in their way
- Last Line:
- As when tis in a wrong belief
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts [T61602]
- Page No(s):
- p.166
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Butler
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts. [T61568]
- Page No(s):
- p.166
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Butler
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- 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.166
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Butler
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
Poem Aliases
Butler. Hudibras.
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