If there be nothing worthy you can see
- DMI number:
- 16505
- First Line:
- If there be nothing worthy you can see
- Last Line:
- There greatness takes a glory to relieve
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Punishment and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from An Elegy ('Tis true I'm broke vows oaths and all I had'). Bevington (2012) VII: 154-158.
- 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. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.239
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson's Underwoods
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
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