Marriage is but the pleasure of a day
- DMI number:
- 5968
- First Line:
- Marriage is but the pleasure of a day
- Last Line:
- The metal's base the gilding worn away
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Marriage
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Lines taken from Act 4 of Dryden's Aureng Zebe. Calif. XII (1995): 216. [And Marriage but ]
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.182
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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