You whose ambition labours to be great
- DMI number:
- 30518
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- You whose ambition labours to be great
- Last Line:
- And close behind him horrid murder stalks
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Drama, Pastoral, and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Poverty and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Dione Act 5 Scene 2. Fuller (1983) I.
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.87-88
- Poem Title:
- Poverty
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Gay. Dione.
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