One crown is guarded with a thousand swords
- DMI number:
- 15919
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- One crown is guarded with a thousand swords
- Last Line:
- But crowns have cares whose workings be unknown
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and The monarchy (heads of state)
- Author:
- Michael Drayton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Gilford Dudley to the Lady Jane Gray. Chalmers (1810) IV: 102-103.
- 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):
- p.130
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Drayton's Dudley to Jane Grey
- Attributed To:
- Michael Drayton
Poem Aliases
Drayton. Dudley to Lady Jane Gray.
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