Ambition's never safe till power be past
- DMI number:
- 5528
- First Line:
- Ambition's never safe till power be past
- Last Line:
- As men till impotent were seldom chaste
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Ambition
- Author:
- Sir Charles Sedley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Antony and Cleopatra Act 1 Scene 1. Pinto (1928) I: 191-263.
- First Line:
- Ambition's never safe till power be past
- Last Line:
- As men till impotent are seldom chaste
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Ambition's never safe till power be past
- Last Line:
- Whose thirst we must not yield to but control
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.122
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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