From The White Devil ("Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright")
From The White Devil ("Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright")
Original Text
The White Devil (London: Printed by N.O for Thomas Archer, 1612) sig. H4v-Ir / STC (2nd ed.) 25178
2But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.
Notes
1] The malcontent Flamineo speaks this epigram in the final act of the play. The couplet is also quoted in a radically different context by the character Bosola in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (Q1623, sig. Kr). Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1612
RPO poem Editors
Christopher Matusiak
RPO Edition
2011
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