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How wisely fate ordained for human kind

DMI number:
13835
Poem Aliases
Davenant. Law against lovers.
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
First Line:
How wisely fate ordained for human kind
Last Line:
Fate to please fools had done the wise great wrong
Poem Genre / Form:
Extract / snippet from longer work
Themes:
Disaster
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Author:
Sir William Davenant
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from The Law against Lovers Act 5 Scene 1. Works (1673).
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.104
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Sir W. Davenant's Law against Lovers
Attributed To:
Sir William Davenant