They talk as they are wont not as I merit
- DMI number:
- 14497
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- They talk as they are wont not as I merit
- Last Line:
- That in the fall endangers their own head
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Communication, Fame, and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Cynthia's Revels Act 3 Scene 3. Bevington (2012) I.
- 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.217-218
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson's Cynthia's Revels
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
Poem Aliases
Jonson. Cynthia's Revels.
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