His stomach's as insatiate as the grave
- DMI number:
- 14898
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- His stomach's as insatiate as the grave
- Last Line:
- Or strumpet's ravenous appetite
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Food and drink and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Philip Massinger
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Edwards and Gibson (1976): II, 306 (extract from 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts', Act 1, Scene 2).
- 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.15
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Massinger's New Way to pay Old Debts
- Attributed To:
- Philip Massinger
Poem Aliases
Massinger. New Way to Pay Old Debts. Act 1.
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