Our natures are like oil

DMI number:

13515

Poem Aliases

Fletcher. Loyal Subject.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Beaumont and Fletcher. Loyal Subject.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Our natures are like oil

Last Line:

Yet still we strive to swim upon the top

Poem Genre / Form:

Extract / snippet from longer work

Themes:

Ambition

Related People

Author:

John Fletcher

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from Loyal Subject Act 1 Scene 2. Bowers (1966-1996) V.

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. [T131617] [ecco]

Page No(s):

p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Loyal Subject

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher