Trust not a great man most of them dissemble
- DMI number:
- 14977
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Trust not a great man most of them dissemble
- Last Line:
- Laugh they have made thee miserable
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Corruption and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- James Shirley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Shirley (1660): C1r-C1v (extract from 'The Grateful Servant').
- 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.27
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shirley's Grateful Servant
- Attributed To:
- James Shirley
Poem Aliases
Shirley. Grateful Servant.
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