Nature too oft by bright does prefer

DMI number:

13414

Poem Aliases

Davenant. Gondibert.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Nature too oft by bright does prefer

Last Line:

In adding cyphers were she made but one

Poem Genre / Form:

Extract / snippet from longer work and Alternate rhyme [ababcdcd...]

Themes:

Advice / moral precepts

Related People

Author:

Sir William Davenant

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from Gondibert (Book 2 Canto 2). Chalmers (1810) VI: 375-431.

Content/Publication

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.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant