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1. An epigram that's new sharp near and witty

First Line:: An epigram that's new sharp near and witty
Last Line:: Once common though still good they are neglected
DMI number:: 43775

2. Arise ye glimmering stars of wit

First Line:: Arise ye glimmering stars of wit
Last Line:: For lo the sun of verse is set
DMI number:: 25174

3. Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit

First Line:: Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit
Last Line:: Hammering out paltry lines twelve times twelve hundred
DMI number:: 9446

4. Could witty Rochester return again

First Line:: Could witty Rochester return again
Last Line:: He'd silence Rochester for want of wit
DMI number:: 27959

5. Each softening charm of Clio's smiling song

First Line:: Each softening charm of Clio's smiling song
Last Line:: The muses and the virtues tune thy mind
Author:: Richard Savage (Confident)
DMI number:: 13091

6. Great wits do not live many days

First Line:: Great wits do not live many days
Last Line:: But thou o laureate live for ever
DMI number:: 24800

7. Invectives we too oft at others throw

First Line:: Invectives we too oft at others throw
Last Line:: Nor spoke to Fuller more in all his life
DMI number:: 24681

8. My Pylades what Juvenal says no jest is

First Line:: My Pylades what Juvenal says no jest is
Last Line:: Scriptus et in tergo nec dum finitus Orestes
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 35385

9. If B----re labours as he writes to please

First Line:: If B----re labours as he writes to please
Last Line:: As if cannot fall it cannot rise
Author:: Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3605

10. If bards would have a shortlived poem writ

First Line:: If bards would have a shortlived poem writ
Last Line:: To file the rust of wit from P----ck's sense
Author:: Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3583

11. If wit as we are told be a disease

First Line:: If wit as we are told be a disease
Last Line:: Tis from his pen the grand elixir flows
Author:: Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3763

12. Leave off for shame thy scribbling itch give over

First Line:: Leave off for shame thy scribbling itch give over
Last Line:: Yet even heroic verse shall stoop to thee
DMI number:: 43411

13. Playwright me reads and still my verses damns

First Line:: Playwright me reads and still my verses damns
Last Line:: In my chaste book profess them in thine own
Author:: Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13069

14. Poet said Chloe with a laugh

First Line:: Poet said Chloe with a laugh
Last Line:: Both epitaph and elegy
DMI number:: 36024

15. Prithee my gentle man of crape and prayer

First Line:: Prithee my gentle man of crape and prayer
Last Line:: Sir Richard never will say the same of thee
Author:: Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3602

16. Says a writer genteel of high genius and taste

First Line:: Says a writer genteel of high genius and taste
Last Line:: For like me all the while they were lulled fast asleep
DMI number:: 33541

17. Says R--d to Joe thou art a very sad dog

First Line:: Says R--d to Joe thou art a very sad dog
Last Line:: The one's in the right and the other's not wrong
DMI number:: 12249

18. Says Richard to Joe thou art a very sad dog

First Line:: Says Richard to Joe thou art a very sad dog
Last Line:: The one's in the right and the other's not wrong
DMI number:: 14482

19. Securely may thou mangle others sense

First Line:: Securely may thou mangle others sense
Last Line:: For ere we criticise we're bound to read
DMI number:: 19550