He who cannot merit | Preferment by employments let him bare
- DMI number:
- 17309
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- He who cannot merit | Preferment by employments let him bare
- Last Line:
- Or die or live a slave without redemption
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Blank verse, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Verse-drama
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts, Ambition, Other countries[Ottoman Empire / Turkey - strangulation], and Patronage
- Author:
- John Ford
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Ford (1652): 6th pagination, B3v-B4r (extract from 'The Ladies Triall', Act 1, Scene 1).
- Title:
- [vol. 3] 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 III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- John Ford's Lady's Trial
- Attributed To:
- John Ford
Poem Aliases
Ford. Lady's Trial. Act 1.
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