Princes by disobedience yet command
- DMI number:
- 5597
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Princes by disobedience yet command
- Last Line:
- They meet their fate in ill-used happiness
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Politics and The monarchy (heads of state)
- Author:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from The Duel of the Stags (1709, ESTC T34995): 3-11.
- First Line:
- Princes by disobedience get command
- Last Line:
- They meet their fate in ill-used happiness
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.319
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Howard. Duel of the Stags.
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