Good heaven that fools and knaves should be so vain
- DMI number:
- 37677
- First Line:
- Good heaven that fools and knaves should be so vain
- Last Line:
- To future days a libel and a jest
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from EPISTLE THE SIXTEENTH. TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, PRINCIPAL PAINTER TO HIS MAJESTY. ('Once I beheld the fairest of her kind'); Calif. IV (1974): 466 [Good Heavn that Sots and Knaves shoud be so vain.]
- First Line:
- Once I beheld the fairest of her kind
- Last Line:
- And give more beauties than he takes away
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The yearly chonicle for M,DCC,LXI [T194997] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
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