That to great faithless wits can truth dispense
- DMI number:
- 14686
- First Line:
- That to great faithless wits can truth dispense
- Last Line:
- When they have weakened it cry twill not hold
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Religion
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from To Doctor Duppa Dean of Christ Church and Tutor to the Prince ('How shall I sleep tonight that am to pay'). Works (1673): 253-254.
- 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):
- pp.257-258
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir W. Davenant
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
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