Had I been born a servant my low life
- DMI number:
- 16476
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Had I been born a servant my low life
- Last Line:
- When the tall oaks are rent up by the roots
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Ambition
- Author:
- Thomas Heywood
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'A pleasant conceited comedie, wherein is shewed, how a man may chuse a good wife from a bad'. (1602, ESTC S119222).
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.233
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Heywood. How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad.
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