Th' ambitious maid at scornful distance stood
- DMI number:
- 13519
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Th' ambitious maid at scornful distance stood
- Last Line:
- Ambition is the mind's immodesty
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Alternate rhyme [ababcdcd...]
- Themes:
- Ambition
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Gondibert (Book 3 Canto 1). Chalmers (1810) VI: 375-431.
- 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. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
Poem Aliases
Davenant. Gondibert.
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