Virtue must be thrown off tis a coarse garment
- DMI number:
- 18552
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Virtue must be thrown off tis a coarse garment
- Last Line:
- Too heavy for the sunshine of a court
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- High society / the court and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Spanish Fryar Act 4 Scene 2. Calif. XIV (1993): 167.
- First Line:
- Virtue must be thrown off tis a coarse garment
- Last Line:
- When they are not the last and worst of men
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]
- Page No(s):
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr. Span. Fryar.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Dryden. Spanish Friar.
Related People
Related Poems
Content/Publication