Kings use their loves as garments they have worn
- DMI number:
- 14600
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Kings use their loves as garments they have worn
- Last Line:
- The wretched Indian scorns the golden ore
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- Michael Drayton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Legend of Matilda the Fair. Chalmers (1810) IV: 143-149.
- 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.241
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Drayton
- Attributed To:
- Michael Drayton
Poem Aliases
Drayton. Matilda.
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