Honour is like that glassy bubble
- DMI number:
- 5504
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Honour is like that glassy bubble
- Last Line:
- And wits are cracked to find out why
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts[honour]
- Author:
- Samuel Butler
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Hudibras. Wilders (1967): 137 (II, ii).
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.80
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The entertainer; containing great variety of instructive entertainment [Vol I] [T100454]
- Page No(s):
- p.223
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.168
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
Poem Aliases
Butler. Hudibras.
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