The eager armies meet to try their cause
- DMI number:
- 13642
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The eager armies meet to try their cause
- Last Line:
- And leave no conquest but one tragedy
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Fighting / conflict and War
- Author:
- Thomas May
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- May (1635): H3v (extract from 'The Victorious Reigne of King Edward the Third', Book 4).
- 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.67
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- May's Edward III
- Attributed To:
- Thomas May
Poem Aliases
May. Edward the Third.
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