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1. Daily and hourly proof | Tell us prosperity is at highest degree

First Line:: Daily and hourly proof | Tell us prosperity is at highest degree
Last Line:: Their own top-heavy state grubs up their root
Author:: George Chapman (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17356

2. Farewell to thy enticing vanity

First Line:: Farewell to thy enticing vanity
Last Line:: The treasure thou includest is dust and smoke
Author:: Nathan Field (Absolute) & John Fletcher (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17189

3. He has not felt | The weight of need that want is virtue's clog

First Line:: He has not felt | The weight of need that want is virtue's clog
Author:: Thomas Randolph (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17330

4. Long lulled asleep with scornful fortune's lies

First Line:: Long lulled asleep with scornful fortune's lies
Last Line:: One must be wretched once or young or old
Author:: William Alexander (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17177

5. My old master kept a good house and twenty

First Line:: My old master kept a good house and twenty
Last Line:: Father's chimney and now carrion-crows build | In the son's kitchen
Author:: George Wilkins (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17328

6. Money's a whore a bawd a drudge

First Line:: Money's a whore a bawd a drudge
Last Line:: Sir and make grass grow out of marrow bones
Author:: Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17333

7. Our eyes | See daily presidents hopeful gentlemen

First Line:: Our eyes | See daily presidents hopeful gentlemen
Last Line:: That they sell all even to their old fathers' graves
Author:: George Wilkins (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17329

8. Prodigal men

First Line:: Prodigal men
Last Line:: Feel not their own stock wasting
Author:: Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17323

9. Prosperity doth bewitch men seeming clear

First Line:: Prosperity doth bewitch men seeming clear
Last Line:: But seas do laugh show white when rocks are near
Author:: John Webster (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17361

10. That which made him gracious in your eyes

First Line:: That which made him gracious in your eyes
Last Line:: Ran like a violent stream to other men's
Author:: John Cooke (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17324

11. The rich | Have wakeful nights whilst the poor man's turf

First Line:: The rich | Have wakeful nights whilst the poor man's turf
Last Line:: From frigid fears all day at night with rest
Author:: Thomas Goffe [Gough] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17237

12. Two thousand pounds a year

First Line:: Two thousand pounds a year
Last Line:: And with their ruin water a whole country
Author:: Thomas May (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17331

13. What is a prodigal faith like a brush

First Line:: What is a prodigal faith like a brush
Last Line:: And they like snakes know when to cast their skin
Author:: George Wilkins (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17327

14. What is a projector I would conceive

First Line:: What is a projector I would conceive
Last Line:: According as he sees they humour it
Author:: Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17332

15. What will this come to he commands us to

First Line:: What will this come to he commands us to
Last Line:: Gently put out of office ere I were forced
Author:: William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17322

16. Young heirs left in this town where sin's so rank

First Line:: Young heirs left in this town where sin's so rank
Last Line:: Who play with them a while at length devour them
Author:: George Wilkins (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17325