Man is like pliant wax
- DMI number:
- 15071
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Man is like pliant wax
- Last Line:
- To seem but only honest or be so
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The Blind Lady' Act 1 Scene 3. Howard (1696): 29-140.
- 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.49
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir Robert Howard's Blind Lady
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
Poem Aliases
The Blind Lady.
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