The court's a golden but a fatal circle
- DMI number:
- 18546
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The court's a golden but a fatal circle
- Last Line:
- And beckon early virtue from its centre
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- High society / the court
- Author:
- Nathaniel Lee
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The Tragedy of Nero', Act 2, Scene 2. Lee (1694): 2nd pagination, 13.
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]
- Page No(s):
- p.56
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee's Nero.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
Poem Aliases
Lee. Nero. Act 2.
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