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
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Act 5 of Dryden's Aureng Zebe. Calif. XII (1995): 229.
- First Line:
- Severe decrees may keep our tongues in awe
- Last Line:
- You'll fit and brood your sorrows on a throne
- 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.129
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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