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1. A late epistle having chose

First Line:
A late epistle having chose
Last Line:
For every booby that can write
DMI number:
19786

2. Accept dear girl the trifle that I send

First Line:
Accept dear girl the trifle that I send
Last Line:
And may amuse you at your leisure hours
DMI number:
33813

3. Accept dear Hal and kindly use

First Line:
Accept dear Hal and kindly use
Last Line:
May the itch of writing leave my friend
DMI number:
10060

4. Accept my lord the tribute which I bring

First Line:
Accept my lord the tribute which I bring
Last Line:
And find not Timon but a Ch-nd-s there
DMI number:
19702

5. After venting all my spite

First Line:
After venting all my spite
Last Line:
I to laugh and you grow wise
Author:
Jonathan Swift (Absolute)
DMI number:
11316

6. Again I urge my old objection

First Line:
Again I urge my old objection
Last Line:
I sit to represent the King
Author:
Robert Lloyd (Absolute)
DMI number:
32358

7. As those who frequently resort

First Line:
As those who frequently resort
Last Line:
Le H-nt and Daniel Wr-y esq
DMI number:
19584

8. As to some great and wealthy lord

First Line:
As to some great and wealthy lord
Last Line:
Can do such things most purely
DMI number:
10066

9. As papist when his restiff saint

First Line:
As papist when his restiff saint
Last Line:
To find your humble servant there
DMI number:
3881

10. Begin my friend to uncommon things aspire

First Line:
Begin my friend to uncommon things aspire
Last Line:
It would be good to read and to converse with thee
DMI number:
12687

11. Brave Nero's favourite my Julius

First Line:
Brave Nero's favourite my Julius
Last Line:
By the lads whose privilege is to be jolly
DMI number:
42212

12. Believe me Rose however this Con may please

First Line:
Believe me Rose however this Con may please
Last Line:
But you fond boy may prove a phaeton
DMI number:
11396

13. Born for a court and versed in every art

First Line:
Born for a court and versed in every art
Last Line:
I who to sweet content do every good confine
DMI number:
8966

14. By the butcher's boy on Tuesday night

First Line:
By the butcher's boy on Tuesday night
Last Line:
Your crazy brains and cool your mettle
Author:
Samuel Butler (Speculation)
DMI number:
8641

15. Cease sir to conquer or I cease to write

First Line:
Cease sir to conquer or I cease to write
Last Line:
I stop at once admire and hold my tongue
DMI number:
8969

16. Come Thomas give us t' other sonnet

First Line:
Come Thomas give us t' other sonnet
Last Line:
Your most obliged and humble servant
Author:
Lewis Thomas (Absolute)
DMI number:
22180

17. Come Thomas give us t' other sonnet

First Line:
Come Thomas give us t' other sonnet
Last Line:
Your most obliged humble servant
Author:
Lewis Thomas (Absolute)
DMI number:
27727

18. Charmed with the lettered lustre of the press

First Line:
Charmed with the lettered lustre of the press
Last Line:
To save unwilling friends in vain is labour tried
DMI number:
25780

19. Cinthia may blush that poorly could admit

First Line:
Cinthia may blush that poorly could admit
Last Line:
Without a blush what love bids her indite
DMI number:
5318

20. Clarinda loves the polished line

First Line:
Clarinda loves the polished line
Last Line:
Must pay her vows to love
DMI number:
35632

21. Dear Bob | Enraptured with your rural sport

First Line:
Dear Bob | Enraptured with your rural sport
Last Line:
Merit that fame and worth that peace secures
DMI number:
35368

22. Cooper how foolish would that author be

First Line:
Cooper how foolish would that author be
Last Line:
It may a while be thumbed and then forgot
Author:
John Oldmixon (Speculation)
DMI number:
6205

23. Cowper how foolish would that author be

First Line:
Cowper how foolish would that author be
Last Line:
It may a while be thumbed and then forgot
DMI number:
8970

24. Daphnis because I am your debtor

First Line:
Daphnis because I am your debtor
Last Line:
I rest your very humble servant
Author:
Aphra Behn (Confident)
DMI number:
41818

25. Dear to my heart my joy my pride

First Line:
Dear to my heart my joy my pride
Last Line:
Pray let your answer be as long
Author:
Samuel Whyte (Speculation)
DMI number:
34007

26. Dear Tom how melancholy I am grown

First Line:
Dear Tom how melancholy I am grown
Last Line:
And wit that at a quibble never fails
Author:
Richard Duke (Absolute)
DMI number:
8705

27. Dear sir if rhyming will go down

First Line:
Dear sir if rhyming will go down
Last Line:
I'm half jocund half grave you'll see | Still | yours eternally | J C
DMI number:
32220

28. Dear sir when I received your letter

First Line:
Dear sir when I received your letter
Last Line:
And write you rhyme when they play pools | At Mr T--s
DMI number:
35345

29. Dear Sir | No single rule's more frequently enjoined

First Line:
Dear Sir | No single rule's more frequently enjoined
Last Line:
Write on however unqualified to write
Author:
Edward Rolle (Absolute)
DMI number:
22629

30. Enough my friend your muse's power is seen

First Line:
Enough my friend your muse's power is seen
Last Line:
Give me their patrons and keep thou thy muse
DMI number:
12549

31. Dryden thy wit has caterwauled too long

First Line:
Dryden thy wit has caterwauled too long
Last Line:
Why then the marvel that a poet sins
DMI number:
42324

32. Friend to my verse ask me no more

First Line:
Friend to my verse ask me no more
Last Line:
Who wounds to heal and strikes to save
DMI number:
19765

33. For what should I my sleeping muse awake

First Line:
For what should I my sleeping muse awake
Last Line:
Twas a good oyster gentlemen adieu
DMI number:
8963

34. Flavia to you with safety I commend

First Line:
Flavia to you with safety I commend
Last Line:
And left the monarch's breast to seek some safer shade
Author:
Nicholas Rowe (Absolute)
DMI number:
3840

35. Garth you as well may bid me scale the sky

First Line:
Garth you as well may bid me scale the sky
Last Line:
That oft the doctor's worse than the disease
DMI number:
7223

36. Hail courteous youth whoever thou art that deignst

First Line:
Hail courteous youth whoever thou art that deignst
Last Line:
Tis better far to please the heart than head
DMI number:
24256

37. Having heard that your doggrel's in mighty renown

First Line:
Having heard that your doggrel's in mighty renown
Last Line:
He may make me jackall in his next German war | I am dear friend yours sincerely
DMI number:
31139

38. His moving elegies when Ovid wrote

First Line:
His moving elegies when Ovid wrote
Last Line:
Condemned to absence and her cold disdain
DMI number:
7006

39. How shall I thank thee noble dame

First Line:
How shall I thank thee noble dame
Last Line:
I'm ever yours | E--a B--e
DMI number:
35347

40. I got your present with your letter

First Line:
I got your present with your letter
Last Line:
Youi may command them when you please
DMI number:
25041

41. In frolic's hour ere serious thought had birth

First Line:
In frolic's hour ere serious thought had birth
Last Line:
To warn and scare be wanting think of me
Author:
Sneyd Davies (Absolute)
DMI number:
27839

42. In frolick's hour ere serious thought had birth

First Line:
In frolick's hour ere serious thought had birth
Last Line:
To warn and scare be wanting think of me
Author:
Sneyd Davies (Absolute)
DMI number:
34977

43. In frolick's hour ere serious thoughts had birth

First Line:
In frolick's hour ere serious thoughts had birth
Last Line:
To warn and scare be wanting think of me
Author:
Sneyd Davies (Absolute)
DMI number:
37023

44. In vain great sir keen satire I disown

First Line:
In vain great sir keen satire I disown
Last Line:
But both the poem and the fact are true
DMI number:
8962

45. In vain my muse I bid you hold in vain

First Line:
In vain my muse I bid you hold in vain
Last Line:
For ever now farewell a long adieu
DMI number:
8971

46. Loaded my lord with cares of state

First Line:
Loaded my lord with cares of state
Last Line:
An English dean or Irish bishop
Author:
Jonathan Smedley (Confident)
DMI number:
11528

47. Letters are winged postillions and do move

First Line:
Letters are winged postillions and do move
Last Line:
Else all commerce and love twixt men would die
DMI number:
43530

48. Licinius yesterday at leisure

First Line:
Licinius yesterday at leisure
Last Line:
How you provoke her will not spare
DMI number:
8536

49. Mun rarely credit common fame

First Line:
Mun rarely credit common fame
Last Line:
The praise she gave was unsuspected
Author:
George Stepney (Absolute)
DMI number:
6574

50. My dear Zelinda since you would explore

First Line:
My dear Zelinda since you would explore
Last Line:
That wisdom taste and virtue can bestow
DMI number:
25864