He that is round within himself and straight
- DMI number:
- 14000
- First Line:
- He that is round within himself and straight
- Last Line:
- And ever is ill got without the first
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from To Sir Thomas Roe ('Thou hast begun well Roe which stand well too'). Bevington (2012) V: 165.
- 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. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
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