Men are not good but for necessity
- DMI number:
- 16394
- First Line:
- Men are not good but for necessity
- Last Line:
- But law must make them good and fear obsequious
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Samuel Daniel
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Civil Wars (Book 7). Chalmers (1810) III: 455-519.
- 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.214
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Daniel's Civil War
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Daniel
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