If we must fall it is as good
- DMI number:
- 14699
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- If we must fall it is as good
- Last Line:
- We do it climbing as thus standing still
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Ambition
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Unfortunate Lovers Act 3 Scene 1. Works (1673).
- 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.262
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir W. Davenant's Unfortunate Lovers
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
Poem Aliases
Davenant. Unfortunate lovers.
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