We think your promises spring-tides but we | Fear you'll ebb in your performance
- DMI number:
- 17340
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- We think your promises spring-tides but we | Fear you'll ebb in your performance
- Last Line:
- Are lines drawn from one centre what I promise | To do I'll do
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Dialogue and Verse-drama
- Themes:
- Communication and Virtue / vice[Promises]
- Author:
- Thomas Dekker
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Bowers (1953-61): III, 306 (extract from 'Match Me in London', Act 3, Scene 2).
- 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.56
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dekker's Match me in London
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Dekker
Poem Aliases
Dekker. Match me in London. Act 3.
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