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Some anxious for immortal fame

DMI number:
19246
First Line:
Some anxious for immortal fame
Last Line:
I'd envy neither rich nor great
Poem Genre / Form:
Advice and Couplet
Themes:
Poetry / literature / writing, Fame, Retirement, and The happy man / contentment
Content/Publication
Title:
Poems written occasionally by John Winstanley... interspers'd with many others, by several ingenious hands [T90956]
Page No(s):
pp.1-3
Poem Title:
On the Folly of Scribling for Fame. To my very good Friend F. G. at Glassnevin.
Attribution:
'Dr. Winstanley's Poems', p.1.
Attributed To:
John Winstanley