Virtue is either lame or not at all

DMI number:

17163

Poem Aliases

Beaumont and Fletcher. Valentinian.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Fletcher. Valentinian.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Virtue is either lame or not at all

Last Line:

When it bars up the way to men's petitions

Poem Genre / Form:

Epigram, Blank verse, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Verse-drama

Themes:

Advice / moral precepts, Love, and Virtue / vice

Related People

Author:

John Fletcher

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from Valentinian Act 1 Scene 2. Bowers (1966-1996) IV.

Content/Publication

Title:

[vol. 3] 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 III] [ECCO] [T131617]

Page No(s):

p.20

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher's Valentinian

Attributed To:

John Fletcher

Francis Beaumont