Thus lions to their keepers couch and fawn
- DMI number:
- 19307
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Thus lions to their keepers couch and fawn
- Last Line:
- And disobey their hunger
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Animals
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Cleomenes Act 2 Scene 2. Calif. XVI (1998): 108-9.
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]
- Page No(s):
- p.221
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr. Cleom.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Dryden. Cleomenes.
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