Kings are but royal slaves and prisoners too
- DMI number:
- 15960
- First Line:
- Kings are but royal slaves and prisoners too
- Last Line:
- They always toil and always guarded go
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- The monarchy (heads of state)
- Author:
- Alexander Brome
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from A speech made to the Lord General Monck ('Nay then let me come too with my address'). Chalmers (1810) VI: 695. Brome (1661): 199-202.
- 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.138
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Alexander Brome
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Brome
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