Decrees are bought and laws are sold
- DMI number:
- 13813
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Decrees are bought and laws are sold
- Last Line:
- Tongues in the senate bribed be
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Corruption and Politics
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Catiline His Conspiracy, Act 1 Scene 1. Bevington (2012) IV.
- 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.96
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson's Catiline
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
Poem Aliases
Jonson. Catiline.
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