Soft soothing words don't always friendly prove
- DMI number:
- 30378
- First Line:
- Soft soothing words don't always friendly prove
- Last Line:
- Are but the varnish to some base design
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Moral, Proverbs / gnomic verse, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- Edmund Arwaker
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Probable extract from 'Fable LXIV. The Vulture's Treat' (The Moral). Select Fables (1708), I: 91.
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [N67747] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.66
- Poem Title:
- XVIII. No Enemy so dangerous as a false Friend; or, Beware of the Snake in the Grass.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [T127913] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.66
- Poem Title:
- XVIII. No Enemy so dangerous as a false Friend; Or, Beware of the Snake in the Grass.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [T128069] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.160
- Poem Title:
- XVIII. No Enemy so dangerous as a false Friend; or, Beware of the Snake in the Grass.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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