If my precepts may persuade and I pray
- DMI number:
- 14135
- First Line:
- If my precepts may persuade and I pray
- Last Line:
- See in true glasses
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- John Lyly
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Lyly (1584): C4r-C4v (extract from 'Sapho and Phao', Act 2, Scene 4).
- 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.174
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lilly's Sapho and Phao
- Attributed To:
- John Lyly
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