Thou were the first mad'st merit know her strength
- DMI number:
- 41277
- First Line:
- Thou were the first mad'st merit know her strength
- Last Line:
- A desperate soloecism in truth and wit
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Fame
- Title:
- [vol. 3] 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 III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- pp.205-206
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson's Epigrams
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
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