Union First Line Index of English Verse

13^th-19^th Century (bulk 1500-1800)

First Line: The world's a bubble, and the life of man

Author (Last name, First): Bacon, Francis

Title: `An ode against man's life' [pr. with Greek original attr. Posidippus, Thomas Farnaby's Florilegium epigrammatum, 1629, and in Otium literatum, H. Stubbe and H. Birkhead, 1656]

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Last Line: Not to be born, or being born to die.

Library: Bod

Shelfmark: Rawl. poet. 142

Folio: f. 20v

Ref Nbr: Crum T1591

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Translations/Imitations: Posidippus

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Union First Line Index of English Verse

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