But the base miser starves amidst his store
- DMI number:
- 5972
- First Line:
- But the base miser starves amidst his store
- Last Line:
- Sits sadly pining and believes he's poor
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Triplet and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Money / wealth and The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Dryden's Wife of Bath; Calif. VII (2000): 477.
- First Line:
- Content is wealth the riches of the mind
- Last Line:
- Sits sadly pining and believes he's poor
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.193
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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