The victor's solid recompence is rest
- DMI number:
- 14947
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The victor's solid recompence is rest
- Last Line:
- With greater toils by ruling what they won
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain abab and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Gondibert (Book 3 Canto 8). 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. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.20
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
Poem Aliases
Davenant. Gondibert.
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