Shame ever sticks close to the ribs of honour
- DMI number:
- 15696
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Shame ever sticks close to the ribs of honour
- Last Line:
- Which their posterity feels at every weather
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Scandal / fame / notoriety
- Author:
- Thomas Middleton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Taylor et al. (2007): 1473 (extract from 'Hengist, King of Kent; or, The Mayor of Queenborough', Act 4, Scene 2).
- 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):
- p.103
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Middleton's Mayor of Quinborough
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Middleton
Poem Aliases
Middleton. Hengist. Act 4.
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