I had much rather see

DMI number:

19040

Poem Aliases

Dryden. Don Sebastian.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

I had much rather see

Last Line:

Both are less poison to my eyes and nature

Poem Genre / Form:

Extract / snippet from longer work

Themes:

Hate

Related People

Author:

John Dryden

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from Don Sebastian Act 2 Scene 1. Calif. XV (1976): 109 [first line is paraphrase of actual ‘You might as well have ask’d me when I saw’]

Content/Publication

Title:

Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]

Page No(s):

p.168

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ibid [i.e. Dryd. D. Seb.]

Attributed To:

John Dryden