Lies hide our sins like nets like perspectives

DMI number:

16370

Poem Aliases

Beaumont and Fletcher. Lovers' Progress.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Fletcher/Massinger. Lovers' Progress.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Lies hide our sins like nets like perspectives

Last Line:

They draw offences nearer still and greater

Poem Genre / Form:

Extract / snippet from longer work

Themes:

Virtue / vice

Related People

Author:

John Fletcher

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from Lovers' Progress Act 3 Scene 6. Bowers (1966-1996) X.

Author:

Philip Massinger

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from Lovers Progress Act 3 Scene 6. Bowers (1966-1996) X.

Content/Publication

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.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Lover's Progress

Attributed To:

John Fletcher

Francis Beaumont