As noblest metals are most soft to melt
- DMI number:
- 35387
- First Line:
- As noblest metals are most soft to melt
- Last Line:
- So pity soonest runs in gentle minds
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- A couplet, modernised, from 'The Knight's Tale' (one of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'. Compare Dryden, 'Palamon and Arcite' [i.e. 'The Knight's Tale']: 'As softest Metals are not slow to melt | And Pity soonest runs in gentle Minds'.
- First Line:
- As softest metals are not slow to melt
- Last Line:
- So pity soonest runs in gentlest minds
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Additions to the works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ... Vol. II. [T5465] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.78
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- A. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- Additions to the works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ... Vol. II. [T5466] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.71
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- A. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
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