Advancement now doth not attend desert

DMI number:

13365

Poem Aliases

Stirling. Julius Caesar.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Advancement now doth not attend desert

Last Line:

Whose virtue makes their vice more vile appear

Poem Genre / Form:

Extract / snippet from longer work and Alternate rhyme [ababcdcd...]

Themes:

Advice / moral precepts and Virtue / vice

Related People

Author:

William Alexander

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Act 3 Scene 1. Stirling (1637).

Content/Publication

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.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Alexander Earl of Sterline's Julius Caesar

Attributed To:

William Alexander