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Where ambition of place goes before fitness

DMI number:
14519
Poem Aliases
Chapman, Jonson, Marston. Eastward Ho.
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
First Line:
Where ambition of place goes before fitness
Last Line:
Of birth contempt and disgrace follow
Poem Genre / Form:
Extract / snippet from longer work
Themes:
Advice / moral precepts
Related People
Author:
Benjamin Jonson
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from Eastward Ho Act 1 Scene 2. Bevington (2012) II.
Author:
George Chapman
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from Eastward Ho Act 4 Scene 2. Bevington (2012) II.
Author:
John Marston
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from Eastward Ho Act 4 Scene 2. Bevington (2012) II.
Content/Publication
Title:
The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [T131617] [ecco]
Page No(s):
p.222
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Chapman, Johnson, and Marston's Eastward Hoe
Attributed To:
George Chapman
Benjamin Jonson