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While a young lion just arrived at age

DMI number:
7698
First Line:
While a young lion just arrived at age
Last Line:
He's forced to stoop to what he does despise
Poem Genre / Form:
Beast tale, Couplet, and Fable
Themes:
Ambition, Anger, and Fate / fortune / providence
Related People
Author:
Edmund Arwaker
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Select Fables (1708), III: 232-233.
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First Line:
Aspiring souls to great attempts inclined
Last Line:
In tunes compelled they of their fate complain
Relationship:
Answer To/Answered By
Comments:
Content/Publication
Title:
Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [June 1711]
Page No(s):
pp.214-215
Poem Title:
The Lion Disarm'd: A Fable.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed