Thus wisdom is to sloth too great a slave
- DMI number:
- 6019
- First Line:
- Thus wisdom is to sloth too great a slave
- Last Line:
- None are so busy as the fool and knave
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Medal; Calif. II (1972): 48 ['But Wisedom']
- First Line:
- Oft wisdom is to sloth too great a slave
- Last Line:
- None are so busy as the fool and knave
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.358
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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