My trade is a fine easy gainful cheat
- DMI number:
- 13923
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- My trade is a fine easy gainful cheat
- Last Line:
- And fools never find the cheat till they are dead
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Religion
- Author:
- John Crowne
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The English Friar' Act 4 Scene 1. Crowne (1873-4), IV: 27-121.
- 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. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Crown's English Frier
- Attributed To:
- John Crowne
Poem Aliases
Crowne. The English Friar.
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