Why do they lay me on a couch of thorns
- DMI number:
- 19031
- First Line:
- Why do they lay me on a couch of thorns
- Last Line:
- Shall I have rest
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Ambrose Philips
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- LION: extract from Humfrey Duke of Gloucester Act 5 Scene 16.
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]
- Page No(s):
- p.164
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Phil. D. of Gloucester.
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
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