See what these times are grown to before twenty

DMI number:

15686

Poem Aliases

Beaumont and Fletcher. Wit at Several Weapons.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Middleton/Rowley. Wit at Several Weapons.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

See what these times are grown to before twenty

Last Line:

When wit plays with the billows that choked him

Poem Genre / Form:

Extract / snippet from longer work

Themes:

Manners and Virtue / vice

Related People

Author:

Thomas Middleton

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from 'Wit at Several Weapons' Act 1 Scene 1. (1718, ESTC T32936). Bowers (1966-1996) VII.

Author:

William Rowley

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from 'Wit at Several Weapons' Act 1 Scene 1. (1718, ESTC T32936). Bowers (1966-1996) VII.

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. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]

Page No(s):

pp.100-101

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Wit at several Weapons

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher