True courtiers should be modest and not nice
- DMI number:
- 14117
- First Line:
- True courtiers should be modest and not nice
- Last Line:
- Bold nut not impudent pleasure love not vice
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- High society / the court and Manners
- Author:
- George Chapman
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Holaday (1987): 125 (extract from 'Bussy D'Ambois', Q2, Act 4, Scene 1).
- 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. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.168
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Chapman's Bussey D'Ambois
- Attributed To:
- George Chapman
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