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Dazzled thus with height of place

DMI number:
12095
First Line:
Dazzled thus with height of place
Last Line:
But proves at night a bed of down
Poem Genre / Form:
Quatrain abab
Themes:
Fate / fortune / providence and Virtue / vice
Related People
Author:
Sir Henry Wotton
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
LION
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First Line:
Dazzled with the height of place
Last Line:
But proves at last a bed of down
Relationship:
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Content/Publication
Title:
A Miscellaneous Collection of Poems, Songs and Epigrams. By several Hands (vol. 2) [T106190] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
p.206
Poem Title:
Verses Written near an Hundred Years ago, upon the sudden Confinement of the then Earl of Somerset, and his being out of Favour.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
A collection of select epigrams in which are many originals never before printed by the most eminent hands [T124651]
Page No(s):
pp.101-102
Poem Title:
CCCLIV. To the Earl of Somerset.
Attribution:
Sir Henry Wotton.
Attributed To:
Sir Henry Wotton
Title:
Reliquiae Wottonianae: or, a collection of lives, letters, poems with characters. Also additional letters to several persons [ESTC R2126]
Page No(s):
p.383
Poem Title:
Upon the sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset, then falling from Favour
Attribution:
H.W.
Attributed To:
Sir Henry Wotton