Though knowledge does beget both joy and love
- DMI number:
- 16024
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Though knowledge does beget both joy and love
- Last Line:
- And the world's seeming mischief is to know
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Education
- Author:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The Vestal Virgin' Act 2 Scene 1. Howard (1692).
- 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.148
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir R. Howard's Vestal Virgins
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
Poem Aliases
The Vestal Virgin.
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