I hear | Some vicious fool draw near
- DMI number:
- 13881
- First Line:
- I hear | Some vicious fool draw near
- Last Line:
- Makes a most blessed gain
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Epode ('Not to know vice at all and keep true state'). Bevington (2012) V: 230-234.
- 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.114
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
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