To kill shows fear dares not more fears endure
- DMI number:
- 16513
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- To kill shows fear dares not more fears endure
- Last Line:
- And it is heaven's great conquest to reclaim
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain abab and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Punishment and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Gondibert (Book 3 Canto 6). Chalmers (1810) VI: 375-431.
- 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.241
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
Poem Aliases
Davenant. Gondibert.
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