O you are wise

DMI number:

15959

Poem Aliases

Davenant. Fair Favourite.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

O you are wise

Last Line:

And ease the glorious torment of our power

Poem Genre / Form:

Dialogue and Extract / snippet from longer work

Themes:

The monarchy (heads of state) and Virtue / vice

Related People

Author:

Sir William Davenant

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from The Fair Favourite Act 1 Scene 1. Works (1673).

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. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]

Page No(s):

pp.137-138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant