Books much contribute to the public good
- DMI number:
- 13795
- First Line:
- Books much contribute to the public good
- Last Line:
- Serve plain meat up and in uncovered plate
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Books
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from To the Earle of Monmouth. Upon his translation of Bentivoglio ('Those who could rule the ancient world with ease'). Works (1673): 316.
- 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.92
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir W. Davenant
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
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