What can be sweeter than our native home
- DMI number:
- 5646
- First Line:
- What can be sweeter than our native home
- Last Line:
- Like Hercules envenomed shirts we wear
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Domestic life
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Non-consecutive lines from Act 2 of Dryden's Aureng Zebe, plus two lines from Act 1 Scene 2 of Dryden's The Indian Emperour, or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Calif. XII (1995): 184, 185; Calif. IX (1967): 34. Calif. XII (1995): 195.
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.509
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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