There's a proud modesty in merit
- DMI number:
- 20023
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- There's a proud modesty in merit
- Last Line:
- Ten times the gift it asks
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Cleomenes Act 2 Scene 2. Calif. XVI (1998): 105.
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus [II] [T134540] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.67
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr. Cleom.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Dryden. Cleomenes.
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