Mischief that may be helped is hard to know
- DMI number:
- 16557
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Mischief that may be helped is hard to know
- Last Line:
- Yet hasty attempts make chance precipitate
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Crime and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Fulke Greville
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from 'Alaham' Act 2 Scene 3. Greville (1633): 1-79.
- 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.248
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Ibid [i.e. Lord Brooke's Alaham]
- Attributed To:
- Fulke Greville
Poem Aliases
Greville. Alaham.
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