That subtle serpent servile flattery

DMI number:

14752

First Line:

That subtle serpent servile flattery

Last Line:

And cankerlike devours it to the root

Poem Genre / Form:

Extract / snippet from longer work and Rhyme royal ababbcc

Themes:

Virtue / vice

Content/Publication

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.272

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed