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371.
Poets and thieves can scarce be rooted out
First Line:
Poets and thieves can scarce be rooted out
Last Line:
Be neither they too sharp nor you too kind
Author:
Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:
38807
372.
Poets by dangers like old soldiers taught
First Line:
Poets by dangers like old soldiers taught
Last Line:
Grow wise and shun the same which once they sought
Author:
Sir Robert Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
17210
373.
Poets like cudgeled bullies never do
First Line:
Poets like cudgeled bullies never do
Last Line:
Our poets virgins nay our matrons too
Author:
William Wycherley (Absolute)
DMI number:
17526
374.
Poets like lawful monarchs ruled the stage
First Line:
Poets like lawful monarchs ruled the stage
Last Line:
Of forty thousand five would scarce remain
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
35802
375.
Poets like mushrooms rise and fall of late
First Line:
Poets like mushrooms rise and fall of late
Last Line:
The audience or the author of the play
Author:
Susanna Centlivre (Absolute)
DMI number:
38993
376.
Poets will think nothing so checks their fury
First Line:
Poets will think nothing so checks their fury
Last Line:
Hear it read try judge and speak as you find
Author:
George Farquhar (Speculation)
DMI number:
38980
377.
Poets your subjects have their parts assigned
First Line:
Poets your subjects have their parts assigned
Last Line:
As what should be beyond what is extends
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
4020
378.
Pressed by the load of life the weary mind
First Line:
Pressed by the load of life the weary mind
Last Line:
Trusts without fear to merit and to you
Author:
Samuel Johnson (Absolute)
DMI number:
31719
379.
Pride by a thousand arts vain honours claims
First Line:
Pride by a thousand arts vain honours claims
Last Line:
And kindly help us to get in our hay
Author:
George Colman (Absolute)
DMI number:
38290
380.
Prologues like bells to churches toll you in
First Line:
Prologues like bells to churches toll you in
Last Line:
Twas imitating you taught Haynes to play
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
35770
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