O your parasite | Is a most precious thing dropped from above
- DMI number:
- 17001
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- O your parasite | Is a most precious thing dropped from above
- Last Line:
- Are the true parasites others but their zanies
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Verse-drama
- Themes:
- Friendship and Virtue / vice[Fair-weather friends - Parasites]
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Volpone Act 3 Scene 1. Bevington (2012) III.
- Title:
- [vol. 3] 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 III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- p.3
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson's Volpone
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
Poem Aliases
Jonson. Volpone.
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