Receive my counsel and securely move
- DMI number:
- 30257
- First Line:
- Receive my counsel and securely move
- Last Line:
- Our future offspring and our wives are known
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Moral and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Tenth Satire of Juvenal ('Look round the habitable world, how few'); Calif. IV (1974): 239.
- First Line:
- The man to Jove did thus apply
- Last Line:
- Henceforth to me resign the rest
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Look round the habitable world how few
- Last Line:
- But set aloft by fools usurps the skies
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [N67747] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.4
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. IV. Providence is the best Director.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [T127913] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.4
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. IV. Providence is the best Director.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [T128069] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.98
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. IV. Providence is the best Director.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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