Content type: Poem / Poem Theme: Manners / Related People: Not attributed

First Line:: An old song made by an aged old pate
Last Line:: Which makes that good housekeeping is now grown so cold | Among the young courtiers of the king | Or the king's young courtiers
DMI number:: 37464

31. Among all the arts which to please we pursue

First Line:: Among all the arts which to please we pursue
Last Line:: Will straight clap your hands and allow this is new
DMI number:: 31824

32. All the world's a stage

First Line:: All the world's a stage
Last Line:: Sans teeth sans eyes sans taste sans everything
Author:: William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:: 21641

33. Although no brandished cherubins are here

First Line:: Although no brandished cherubins are here
Last Line:: When an heroic is a georgic too
DMI number:: 4539

34. And shall great Halifax resign to fate

First Line:: And shall great Halifax resign to fate
Last Line:: Or Newton die in falling worlds of fire
Author:: George Sewell (Confident)
DMI number:: 1470

35. And when the mind a violent passion shakes

First Line:: And when the mind a violent passion shakes
Last Line:: And feeble shakings seize of every limb
DMI number:: 20295

36. As mastiff dogs in modern phrase are

First Line:: As mastiff dogs in modern phrase are
Last Line:: Is not this same a Salamander
Author:: Jonathan Swift (Absolute)
DMI number:: 1965

37. As two small children were at play

First Line:: As two small children were at play
Last Line:: Consult your faithful friend the looking glass
DMI number:: 1913

38. As oaks in stormy seasons shed

First Line:: As oaks in stormy seasons shed
Last Line:: And off he shook his hair
DMI number:: 1418

39. As Giron in the temple lately sat

First Line:: As Giron in the temple lately sat
Last Line:: Twas cause he could not sleep they talked so loud
DMI number:: 7519

40. As Giron lately in the temple sat

First Line:: As Giron lately in the temple sat
Last Line:: Twas 'cause he could not sleep they talked so loud
DMI number:: 17488

41. As he lived so he died

First Line:: As he lived so he died
Last Line:: But that of wealth cursed mammon
DMI number:: 3304

42. As a young rake repentant sat

First Line:: As a young rake repentant sat
Last Line:: No state of life from sorrow's free
Author:: Daniel (the elder) Bellamy (Absolute)
DMI number:: 1744

43. As servile preachers who preferment wait

First Line:: As servile preachers who preferment wait
Last Line:: Then raised his voice and the great Trojan sung
DMI number:: 3878

44. As some great monarch proud of doing good

First Line:: As some great monarch proud of doing good
Last Line:: And are themselves the source of all their woe
DMI number:: 3349

45. At five this morn when Phoebus raised his head

First Line:: At five this morn when Phoebus raised his head
Last Line:: Did seem to me by much the wiser creature
Author:: John Wilmot (Absolute)
DMI number:: 2177

46. At Hackney or at Chelsea bred

First Line:: At Hackney or at Chelsea bred
Last Line:: The world applauds the brave submit
DMI number:: 19541

47. Avaro who would skin a flint

First Line:: Avaro who would skin a flint
Last Line:: They give their votes but not their heart
DMI number:: 217

48. At wit perplexed if you would smile

First Line:: At wit perplexed if you would smile
Last Line:: Bestow it on the poor Noailles
DMI number:: 18070

49. Beauty alone's too impotent a charm

First Line:: Beauty alone's too impotent a charm
Last Line:: For elegance can only win the heart
DMI number:: 10309

50. Beauty to the agreeable must give way

First Line:: Beauty to the agreeable must give way
Last Line:: The agreeable could not then be expressed
DMI number:: 17639

51. Behold that man that with gigantic might

First Line:: Behold that man that with gigantic might
Last Line:: And all in time will rue it | Then mad &c
Author:: Thomas D'Urfey (Absolute)
DMI number:: 2592

52. Bred up by parents' arbitrary rules

First Line:: Bred up by parents' arbitrary rules
Last Line:: True martyr to the cause rots stinks and dies
DMI number:: 11161

53. Believe me friends whatever you do

First Line:: Believe me friends whatever you do
Last Line:: No wise man will accept it
DMI number:: 18319

54. Believe me Will that they who have least sense

First Line:: Believe me Will that they who have least sense
Last Line:: Lies in the more or less degree of sense
DMI number:: 3865

55. Believe me Will that those who have least sense

First Line:: Believe me Will that those who have least sense
Last Line:: Lies in the more or the less want of sense
DMI number:: 6496

56. Boasting fops who court the fair

First Line:: Boasting fops who court the fair
Last Line:: While we talk it flies away
DMI number:: 544

57. Beneath a tun whose vast capacious sides

First Line:: Beneath a tun whose vast capacious sides
Last Line:: And with unrivalled ditty charms alone
DMI number:: 21717

58. Beneath the gloomy covert of an yew

First Line:: Beneath the gloomy covert of an yew
Last Line:: So lightning gilds the unrelenting storm
Author:: Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:: 29809

59. Beneath this rugged stone doth lie

First Line:: Beneath this rugged stone doth lie
Last Line:: And send me anywhere but there
DMI number:: 18313

60. By what strong impulse anxious mortals strive

First Line:: By what strong impulse anxious mortals strive
Last Line:: As blissful life and true immortal fame
Author:: Sir Richard Blackmore (Absolute)
DMI number:: 9330

61. Can it be thought ye wives this scribbling fool

First Line:: Can it be thought ye wives this scribbling fool
Last Line:: Wives won't be taught be it the school for maids
Author:: Hugh Kelly (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37866

62. Can we succeed by wishing tis a jest

First Line:: Can we succeed by wishing tis a jest
Last Line:: The greatest bar to happiness is pride
DMI number:: 22098

63. Can you count the silver lights

First Line:: Can you count the silver lights
Last Line:: Or Marlborough's acts or -----n's charms
Author:: Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8395

64. Careless quite of mighty things

First Line:: Careless quite of mighty things
Last Line:: At least I hope it may be so
DMI number:: 3273

65. By good St Andrew and the thistle

First Line:: By good St Andrew and the thistle
Last Line:: The harm there is in all the three
DMI number:: 31874

66. By heaven tis false I am not vain

First Line:: By heaven tis false I am not vain
Last Line:: And witty at my cost
Author:: Aphra Behn (Absolute)
DMI number:: 2860

67. But fear some other might the honour win

First Line:: But fear some other might the honour win
Last Line:: And he too late or second should come in
DMI number:: 5603

68. Come hither my country squire

First Line:: Come hither my country squire
Last Line:: Or enjoy the delights of the town | Such flaunting &c
Author:: Henry Carey (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23758

69. Deaf to the bar the pulpit and the throne

First Line:: Deaf to the bar the pulpit and the throne
Last Line:: And pistol proof put down these mighty men
Author:: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37948

70. Dear Frank with fancy fire and style

First Line:: Dear Frank with fancy fire and style
Last Line:: Despise his want of sense
Author:: Thomas Fitzgerald (Absolute)
DMI number:: 218

71. Dear friend for surely I may call him so

First Line:: Dear friend for surely I may call him so
Last Line:: A grateful soul and a contented mind
Author:: Edmund Poley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 956

72. Cursed on the star dear Harry that betrayed

First Line:: Cursed on the star dear Harry that betrayed
Last Line:: To dwell with those whom all combine to shun
Author:: Richardson Pack (Absolute)
DMI number:: 20495

73. 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

74. Could our first father at his toilsome plough

First Line:: Could our first father at his toilsome plough
Last Line:: To fix the wavering form and give the thing a name
DMI number:: 30988

75. Could our first father at his toilsome plough

First Line:: Could our first father at his toilsome plough
Last Line:: To hit the wavering form or give the thing a name
Author:: Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6969

76. Cupid ere deprived of sight

First Line:: Cupid ere deprived of sight
Last Line:: That love by folly should be led
Author:: Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14858

77. Dear Thomas didst thou never pop

First Line:: Dear Thomas didst thou never pop
Last Line:: Always aspiring always low
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 1752

78. Dear Tom I thank you for the offer

First Line:: Dear Tom I thank you for the offer
Last Line:: Too well I know your skill and fame
DMI number:: 3008

79. Envy will merit as its shade persue

First Line:: Envy will merit as its shade persue
Last Line:: Reflect new glories and augment the day
Author:: Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:: 1369

80. Envy will merit as its shade pursue

First Line:: Envy will merit as its shade pursue
Last Line:: The opposing body's grossness not its own
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 29808

81. Ere bribes convince you whom to choose

First Line:: Ere bribes convince you whom to choose
Last Line:: Ours sell themselves and take the gold
Author:: Jonathan Swift (Speculation)
DMI number:: 1966

82. Ere Noll did gainst his pious prince rebel

First Line:: Ere Noll did gainst his pious prince rebel
Last Line:: Today what yesterday preached strenuously
DMI number:: 8104

83. Escaped from my guardian's tyrannical sway

First Line:: Escaped from my guardian's tyrannical sway
Last Line:: For their bubbles and bows to give your good sense
Author:: Samuel Foote (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37952

84. Don't boast prithee Cibber so much of thy state

First Line:: Don't boast prithee Cibber so much of thy state
Last Line:: And tis easy to know their buffoons from their friends
DMI number:: 17981

85. Early by four on Friday morn

First Line:: Early by four on Friday morn
Last Line:: So blessed myself and came away
DMI number:: 43167

86. Deep to unfathomable spaces deep

First Line:: Deep to unfathomable spaces deep
Last Line:: His pompous creeds and boasted faith has lost
Author:: Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4070

87. Do what you can a woman still

First Line:: Do what you can a woman still
Last Line:: That one good turn deserves another
DMI number:: 19380

88. Downy peace extend thy pinions

First Line:: Downy peace extend thy pinions
Last Line:: Lest excess should drown the soul
DMI number:: 20482

89. Fashion a motley nymph of yore

First Line:: Fashion a motley nymph of yore
Last Line:: But damn me into some repute
Author:: Christopher Smart (Absolute)
DMI number:: 32332

90. Examine nature's work around

First Line:: Examine nature's work around
Last Line:: For all the world is but a ball
DMI number:: 22110

91. First the great gods thy utmost reverence claim

First Line:: First the great gods thy utmost reverence claim
Last Line:: And range immortal in the fields of light
Author:: Thomas Fitzgerald (Absolute)
DMI number:: 140

92. Fair daughter blessed beyond thy mother's charms

First Line:: Fair daughter blessed beyond thy mother's charms
Last Line:: Thou too be changed and make my vows thy own
DMI number:: 220

93. Fair virgin this epistle begs

First Line:: Fair virgin this epistle begs
Last Line:: To plunder owes his gilded state
Author:: Edward Cobden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16322

94. Four arrant knaves in one deceitful pack

First Line:: Four arrant knaves in one deceitful pack
Last Line:: Instead of knaves shall pass for single tens
Author:: Edward Ward (Speculation)
DMI number:: 8019

95. Frank carves very ill yet will palm all the meats

First Line:: Frank carves very ill yet will palm all the meats
Last Line:: For of late I invite him but four times a week
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12424

96. Fools they are the only nation

First Line:: Fools they are the only nation
Last Line:: Oh who would not be | he he he
Author:: Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23621

97. From rags to paper then to pasteboard changed

First Line:: From rags to paper then to pasteboard changed
Last Line:: While Br----n sinks without our least regard
DMI number:: 20851

98. From Stratford arrived piping hot gentlefolks

First Line:: From Stratford arrived piping hot gentlefolks
Last Line:: Your favours have ever outrun my slight merit
DMI number:: 38005

99. From the grand tour through Paris Florence Rome

First Line:: From the grand tour through Paris Florence Rome
Last Line:: He knows the world ay and the world knows him
DMI number:: 22054

100. Gentle reproofs have long been tried in vain

First Line:: Gentle reproofs have long been tried in vain
Last Line:: To fright away the vermin of the age
Author:: Edmund Ashton (Absolute) & John Wilmot (Speculation)
DMI number:: 2184

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30. An old song made by an aged old pate

31. Among all the arts which to please we pursue

32. All the world's a stage

33. Although no brandished cherubins are here

34. And shall great Halifax resign to fate

35. And when the mind a violent passion shakes

36. As mastiff dogs in modern phrase are

37. As two small children were at play

38. As oaks in stormy seasons shed

39. As Giron in the temple lately sat

40. As Giron lately in the temple sat

41. As he lived so he died

42. As a young rake repentant sat

43. As servile preachers who preferment wait

44. As some great monarch proud of doing good

45. At five this morn when Phoebus raised his head

46. At Hackney or at Chelsea bred

47. Avaro who would skin a flint

48. At wit perplexed if you would smile

49. Beauty alone's too impotent a charm

50. Beauty to the agreeable must give way

51. Behold that man that with gigantic might

52. Bred up by parents' arbitrary rules

53. Believe me friends whatever you do

54. Believe me Will that they who have least sense

55. Believe me Will that those who have least sense

56. Boasting fops who court the fair

57. Beneath a tun whose vast capacious sides

58. Beneath the gloomy covert of an yew

59. Beneath this rugged stone doth lie

60. By what strong impulse anxious mortals strive

61. Can it be thought ye wives this scribbling fool

62. Can we succeed by wishing tis a jest

63. Can you count the silver lights

64. Careless quite of mighty things

65. By good St Andrew and the thistle

66. By heaven tis false I am not vain

67. But fear some other might the honour win

68. Come hither my country squire

69. Deaf to the bar the pulpit and the throne

70. Dear Frank with fancy fire and style

71. Dear friend for surely I may call him so

72. Cursed on the star dear Harry that betrayed