Pleasure is like a building the more high
- DMI number:
- 17175
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Pleasure is like a building the more high
- Last Line:
- The narrower still it grows cedars die | Soonest at top
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Verse-drama
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Objects[Tree - Cedar]
- Author:
- William Rowley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Birth of Merlin Act 3 Scene 6. Shakespeare apocrypha.
- Author:
- William Shakespeare
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Birth of Merlin Act 3 Scene 6. Shakespeare apocrypha. ODBN entry (William Rowley): 'The title-page of the 1662 quarto credits Rowley and William Shakespeare, but while Rowley's part in this mix of legendary history and romance is generally acknowledged [...] Shakespeare's involvement is ruled out by an entry in the records of Sir Henry Herbert'.
- 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):
- pp.24-25
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shakespear and Rowley's Birth of Merlin
- Attributed To:
- William RowleyWilliam Shakespeare
Poem Aliases
Shakespeare. The Birth of Merlin.
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