Ambition's never safe till power be past

DMI number:

14182

First Line:

Ambition's never safe till power be past

Last Line:

As men till impotent are seldom chaste

Poem Genre / Form:

Drama and Extract / snippet from longer work

Themes:

Ambition[Ambition]

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First Line:

Ambition's never safe till power be past

Last Line:

As men till impotent were seldom chaste

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Content/Publication

Title:

Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]

Page No(s):

p.8

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sed. Ant. and Cleop.

Attributed To:

Not attributed