Blacklight

No might nor greatness in mortality

DMI number:
14086
Poem Aliases
Shakespeare. Measure for Measure.
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
First Line:
No might nor greatness in mortality
Last Line:
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue
Poem Genre / Form:
Extract / snippet from longer work and Quatrain aabb
Themes:
Scandal / fame / notoriety and Virtue / vice
Related People
Author:
William Shakespeare
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from Measure for Measure Act 3 Scene 1.
Content/Publication
Title:
Original and genuine letters sent to the Tatler and Spectator [T147412] [vol. 2]
Page No(s):
p.93
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Shakespear.
Attributed To:
William Shakespeare
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.217
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Shakespear's Measure for Measure
Attributed To:
William Shakespeare