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Severe decrees may keep our tongues in awe

DMI number:
5532
First Line:
Severe decrees may keep our tongues in awe
Last Line:
Your crimes and your own conscience be your hell
Poem Genre / Form:
Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
Themes:
Advice / moral precepts, Crime, and The law
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Author:
John Dryden
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from Act 5 of Dryden's Aureng Zebe. Calif. XII (1995): 229.
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Severe decrees may keep our tongues in awe
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Comments:
Content/Publication
Title:
Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
Page No(s):
p.129
Poem Title:
[no title]
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