Seeming devotion does but gild the knave
- DMI number:
- 30071
- First Line:
- Seeming devotion does but gild the knave
- Last Line:
- It makes the hero like an angel shine
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice[hypocrisy]
- Author:
- Edmund Waller
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Some verse of an impefect copy designed for a friend on his translations of Ovid's 'Fasti'' ('Rome 's holy-days you tell, as if a guest'). Chalmers (1810) VIII: 82.
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- Hypocrisy
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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