Want is a bitter but a wholesome good
- DMI number:
- 24654
- First Line:
- Want is a bitter but a wholesome good
- Last Line:
- And wit in rags is turned to ridicule
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Composite poem, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Money / wealth and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Wife of Bath and Third Satire of Juvenal. Calif. VII (2000): Calif. IV (1974): 127.
- First Line:
- Grieved though I am an ancient friend to lose
- Last Line:
- And add new venom when you write of Rome
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- In days of old when Arthur filled the throne
- Last Line:
- Who will not well be governed by their wives
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems, divine and moral [T173370]
- Page No(s):
- p.i
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
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