Union First Line Index of English Verse
13th-19th 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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Not to be born, or being born to die.
Library:
Bod
Shelfmark:
Rawl. poet. 117
Folio:
f. 173 rev.
Ref Nbr:
Crum T1591
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Posidippus
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