Great Charles who full of mercy wouldst command
- DMI number:
- 3634
- First Line:
- Great Charles who full of mercy wouldst command
- Last Line:
- Till the stroke's struck which they can never retrieve
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Admonition, and Address
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts[danger of assassination of Charles II.], Politics[Charles II and evil counsel.], Religion[anti-Catholicism.], and Betrayal / deception
- Author:
- John Wilmot
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Vieth (1968): 226: Noted but omitted.
- First Line:
- Great Charles who full of mercy mightst command
- Last Line:
- Till the stroke's struck which they can never retrieve
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems on affairs of state [ESTC R23725]
- Page No(s):
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- To the King.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol I] [T108847]
- Page No(s):
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- To the King.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state [vol. I] [T144919]
- Page No(s):
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- To the King.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of State: from the time of Oliver Cromwell to the abdication of K. James the second. [ESTC R26563]
- Page No(s):
- p. 92
- Poem Title:
- To the King.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on affairs of state: from the time of Oliver Cromwell to the abdication of K. James the second. [ESTC R26892]
- Page No(s):
- p. 98
- Poem Title:
- To the King.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Poems on several occasions with Valentinian [T95236]
- Page No(s):
- p.167
- Poem Title:
- To the King.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Rochester's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
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