Be not with honours gilded baits beguiled

DMI number:

13520

Poem Aliases

Davenant. Gondibert.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Be not with honours gilded baits beguiled

Last Line:

Tis so unsound her cradle is her grave

Poem Genre / Form:

Extract / snippet from longer work and Alternate rhyme [ababcdcd...]

Themes:

Ambition

Related People

Author:

Sir William Davenant

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from Gondibert (Book 1 Canto 5). Chalmers (1810) VI: 375-431.

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.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir. W. Davenant's Gondibert

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant