Know this my lord nobility of blood
- DMI number:
- 28168
- First Line:
- Know this my lord nobility of blood
- Last Line:
- Whose noble hands had exercised the plough
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- High society / the court and Virtue / vice
- Translated from:
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Wife of Bath Her Tale. Calif. VII (2000): 473-7.
- First Line:
- Nobility of blood
- Last Line:
- And by your virtue prove yourself their son
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The polite companion: containing essays illustrated with passages from the poets, orators [T202654] [Vol.1]
- Page No(s):
- pp.225-227
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryden's Wife of Bath, from Chaucer. [p.227]
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
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