On a grey head age was authority
- DMI number:
- 16887
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- On a grey head age was authority
- Last Line:
- And age from that which bred it good example
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Age
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Every Man in his Humour Act 2 Scene 5. Bevington (2012) IV.
- 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.305-306
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson's Every Man in his Humour
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
Poem Aliases
Jonson. Every man in his humour.
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