Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant
- DMI number:
- 14758
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant
- Last Line:
- And of all tame a flatterer
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Sejanus: His Fall Act 1. Bevington (2012) II.
- 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.273
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson's Sejanus
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
Poem Aliases
Jonson. Sejanus.
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