Fortune takes care that fools should still be seen
- DMI number:
- 18920
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Fortune takes care that fools should still be seen
- Last Line:
- Twould make ten fools a man's a prodigy
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Dunces
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Oedipus Act 3 Scene 1. Calif. XIII (1985): 159 [And Fortune still takes care they should be seen']
- Author:
- Nathaniel Lee
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from Oedipus Act 3 Scene 1. Calif. XIII (1985): 159.
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.135
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]
- Page No(s):
- p.139
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Oed.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Dryden and Lee. Oedipus. Act 3.
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