All preferment | That springs from sin and lust shoots up quickly
- DMI number:
- 17308
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- All preferment | That springs from sin and lust shoots up quickly
- Last Line:
- Even like a salad growing upon a dunghill
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Blank verse, Satire, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Verse-drama
- Themes:
- Corruption, Gardens[Fertiliser], and Patronage
- Author:
- Thomas Middleton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Taylor et al. (2007): 1519 (extract from 'Women Beware Women', Act 3, Scene 2).
- Title:
- [vol. 3] 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 III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Middleton's Women beware Women
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Middleton
Poem Aliases
Middleton. Women Beware Women. Act 3.
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