Envy is but the smoke of low estate
- DMI number:
- 14614
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Envy is but the smoke of low estate
- Last Line:
- Ascending still against the fortunate
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Fulke Greville
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'Alaham' Act 3 Scene 3. Greville (1633): 1-79.
- 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.245
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lord Brook's Alaham
- Attributed To:
- Fulke Greville
Poem Aliases
Greville. Alaham.
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