Mercy is the highest reach of wit
- DMI number:
- 16507
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Mercy is the highest reach of wit
- Last Line:
- Like God not seen till fleshly passion dies
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Punishment and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Fulke Greville
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'Mustapha' Act 2 Scene 3. Greville (1633): 81-160.
- 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.240
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lord Brooke's Mustapha
- Attributed To:
- Fulke Greville
Poem Aliases
Greville. Mustapha.
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