Knaves will thrive
- DMI number:
- 39159
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Knaves will thrive
- Last Line:
- When honest plainness shows not how to live
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- James Shirley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Shirley (1640): F3r (extract from 'The Maides Revenge').
- Title:
- [vol. 3] 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 III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shirley's Maid's Revenge.
- Attributed To:
- James Shirley
Poem Aliases
Shirley. Maid's Revenge.
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