What throngs of great impediments besiege

DMI number:

17310

Poem Aliases

Davenant. Cruel Brother.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

What throngs of great impediments besiege

Last Line:

Unthrifty merchandise to change my gold | For breath

Poem Genre / Form:

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

Themes:

Advice / moral precepts and Virtue / vice

Related People

Author:

Sir William Davenant

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from The Cruel Brother Act 1 Scene 1. (1630: S109305).

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.48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir W. Davenant's Cruel Brother

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant