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1. A clergyman that oft hath preached

First Line:
A clergyman that oft hath preached
Last Line:
To this day that I heard
DMI number:
41932

2. A Levite gaming makes the saying true

First Line:
A Levite gaming makes the saying true
Last Line:
Tables much fitter for a Levite's use
DMI number:
18094

3. A priest there was who with a silver sound

First Line:
A priest there was who with a silver sound
Last Line:
The sermon edifies the example spoils
DMI number:
22584

4. About an bank with balmy bewis

First Line:
About an bank with balmy bewis
Last Line:
Quhois glore eternall rings
Author:
Alexander Montgomerie (Absolute)
DMI number:
10935

5. Alas what has this poor animal done

First Line:
Alas what has this poor animal done
Last Line:
The direful operations of your ungodly hate
DMI number:
42984

6. An abbot rich whose taste was good

First Line:
An abbot rich whose taste was good
Last Line:
First mend the faults they find in others
Author:
John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:
21903

7. As Celia to the almighty prayed

First Line:
As Celia to the almighty prayed
Last Line:
And lastly let the devil take him | Lord I beseech thee
DMI number:
18273

8. As I walked of late by an wood side

First Line:
As I walked of late by an wood side
Last Line:
And then good housekeeping wold revive out of hand
DMI number:
37404

9. Ascend Alecto from thy den and come

First Line:
Ascend Alecto from thy den and come
Last Line:
They vanished and Alecto sunk to hell
DMI number:
42999

10. Behold we flowers that bloom from hour to hour

First Line:
Behold we flowers that bloom from hour to hour
Last Line:
Adhere to him and all his goodness prove
DMI number:
36853

11. Children and youth to God present

First Line:
Children and youth to God present
Last Line:
And will with heaven's avail
DMI number:
36338

12. Chloe a country vicar's daughter

First Line:
Chloe a country vicar's daughter
Last Line:
And drowns her senses intellectual
DMI number:
9684

13. Chloe a country vicar's daughter

First Line:
Chloe a country vicar's daughter
Last Line:
And lies with every man she meets
DMI number:
21912

14. Chloe loves only me she vows

First Line:
Chloe loves only me she vows
Last Line:
And gain himself promotion
DMI number:
12754

15. Come painter you and I you know dare do

First Line:
Come painter you and I you know dare do
Last Line:
Then Asaph's song shall be like Doeg's rhyme
DMI number:
41823

16. Come children come and learn your father's trade

First Line:
Come children come and learn your father's trade
Last Line:
And with their money drink and drab and whore
DMI number:
43022

17. Cursed as the evil one is he

First Line:
Cursed as the evil one is he
Last Line:
I rise take breath and run away
DMI number:
35997

18. Cursed be the timorous fool whose feeble mind

First Line:
Cursed be the timorous fool whose feeble mind
Last Line:
A steady resolute heroic soul
DMI number:
3655

19. Conscience thou home-felt friend or innate foe

First Line:
Conscience thou home-felt friend or innate foe
Last Line:
And heaven is half obtained before we die
Author:
George Sewell (Speculation)
DMI number:
12001

20. Conscience thou native guide of human kind

First Line:
Conscience thou native guide of human kind
Last Line:
Soul truth light reason centre all in thee Procul esto severi
DMI number:
24551

21. Deep in the bosom of a vale

First Line:
Deep in the bosom of a vale
Last Line:
They never shall reach my furthest link
DMI number:
36032

22. Father of lights what glories in that name

First Line:
Father of lights what glories in that name
Last Line:
Day without night and raptures without end
DMI number:
36346

23. Experience out of observation says

First Line:
Experience out of observation says
Last Line:
The righteous man to punish sinful folly
DMI number:
43712

24. For various trials from our birth designed

First Line:
For various trials from our birth designed
Last Line:
And consecrates this trophy to thy praise
DMI number:
36200

25. From infallible Rome once more I am come

First Line:
From infallible Rome once more I am come
Last Line:
Nor take his ballad in dudgeon
DMI number:
42977

26. From Mahomet and paganism

First Line:
From Mahomet and paganism
Last Line:
Libera nos Domine
DMI number:
42990

27. From Rome's infallibility take a grain

First Line:
From Rome's infallibility take a grain
Last Line:
And tis the true Catholic cordial posset
DMI number:
44341

28. From Stygian shade lo my pale ghost doth rise

First Line:
From Stygian shade lo my pale ghost doth rise
Last Line:
And perhaps may then leave purgatory
DMI number:
43008

29. God bless my good lord bishop

First Line:
God bless my good lord bishop
Last Line:
Then kissing would be dear
DMI number:
42991

30. Hail glorious author of creation's frame

First Line:
Hail glorious author of creation's frame
Last Line:
Cries there ye rebels go and meet your God
DMI number:
36274

31. Hail venerable South be honour paid

First Line:
Hail venerable South be honour paid
Last Line:
To all the adorers of the great three one
Author:
Samuel Wesley (Absolute)
DMI number:
27408

32. Have angels sinned and shall not men beware

First Line:
Have angels sinned and shall not men beware
Last Line:
His joys are joys of conquest not of peace
Author:
Edward Young (Absolute)
DMI number:
33142

33. He who has drunk the ethereal stream

First Line:
He who has drunk the ethereal stream
Last Line:
Dissolved with a dissolving world
DMI number:
36344

34. He that is down needs fear no fall

First Line:
He that is down needs fear no fall
Last Line:
Have God to be his guide
Author:
John Bunyan (Absolute)
DMI number:
15418

35. He that relieves his neighbour in distress

First Line:
He that relieves his neighbour in distress
Last Line:
Is sure in the end to have a heavenly store
DMI number:
36745

36. Hence ye irreligious hence

First Line:
Hence ye irreligious hence
Last Line:
A faint among the saints shall shine
DMI number:
22051

37. Here will I rest and build my hopes

First Line:
Here will I rest and build my hopes
Last Line:
My health my life my God
DMI number:
35275

38. I am not high church nor low church nor tory nor whig

First Line:
I am not high church nor low church nor tory nor whig
Last Line:
I submit to the will of an infinite god
DMI number:
15338

39. I judge and find how God doth mind

First Line:
I judge and find how God doth mind
Last Line:
To have an hundreth in a score
DMI number:
49226

40. Immortal God whom men and angels own

First Line:
Immortal God whom men and angels own
Last Line:
But thou in thine excellst them every one
DMI number:
36219

41. In short she is I scarce can tell the best

First Line:
In short she is I scarce can tell the best
Last Line:
A primitive saint or virgin was the least
DMI number:
6858

42. In crowds the Ladies throng where pleasure calls

First Line:
In crowds the Ladies throng where pleasure calls
Last Line:
They've nothing else to do but mind their souls
DMI number:
25188

43. In doubt I lived

First Line:
In doubt I lived
Last Line:
What faith I lived or died in
DMI number:
11988

44. Is this the man that's now the object made

First Line:
Is this the man that's now the object made
Last Line:
'Gainst him the prey they greedily devour
DMI number:
8095

45. It blew an hard storm and in utmost confusion

First Line:
It blew an hard storm and in utmost confusion
Last Line:
They tossed the poor parson souse into the ocean
Author:
William Taylor (Absolute)
DMI number:
27765

46. In what a maze of error here I stray

First Line:
In what a maze of error here I stray
Last Line:
Make me the polished shaft to obey thy will
Author:
Edmund Arwaker (Absolute)
DMI number:
36205

47. Indeed Mr C- it seems very odd

First Line:
Indeed Mr C- it seems very odd
Last Line:
How happy 'twill be for the devil and you
DMI number:
24522

48. Lo now confused heaps only stand

First Line:
Lo now confused heaps only stand
Last Line:
Yield us more blessings unto those before
DMI number:
42979

49. Like Noah's ark the spacious room is filled

First Line:
Like Noah's ark the spacious room is filled
Last Line:
Wanted the righteous eight that saved us all
DMI number:
17430

50. I'm not designed to say who lies beneath

First Line:
I'm not designed to say who lies beneath
Last Line:
In which with Jesus thou shalt ever reign
DMI number:
33045

51. I sing a prelate good unbodied now

First Line:
I sing a prelate good unbodied now
Last Line:
Till then to battle and but there to die
Author:
Samuel Wesley (Absolute)
DMI number:
27404

52. If virtue in a medium does consist

First Line:
If virtue in a medium does consist
Last Line:
If ever it did in medio consist
DMI number:
6059

53. Knaw ze not God omnipotent

First Line:
Knaw ze not God omnipotent
Last Line:
Suld be the meane to have belyve | Ane end of mes
Author:
John Wedderburn (Confident)
DMI number:
10957

54. Midst all the evils of a transient life

First Line:
Midst all the evils of a transient life
Last Line:
And meditate by night
DMI number:
25368

55. Men may amuse themselves with knavish tricks

First Line:
Men may amuse themselves with knavish tricks
Last Line:
Distrusted in this life and punished in the next
DMI number:
24979

56. No fears by which our sceptics are distressed

First Line:
No fears by which our sceptics are distressed
Last Line:
Her soul would start to hear a word profane
Author:
Robert Gould (Absolute)
DMI number:
6855

57. O thou the brightener of our joys

First Line:
O thou the brightener of our joys
Last Line:
And joys best emblems of thy own abound
DMI number:
36079

58. Old Maul is dead I fain would write

First Line:
Old Maul is dead I fain would write
Last Line:
He loved no praise but that of God
DMI number:
18520

59. Over bearing rigid positive all right

First Line:
Over bearing rigid positive all right
Last Line:
While heaven sees both and these more justifies
DMI number:
31861

60. On my hard fate as late I pondering lay

First Line:
On my hard fate as late I pondering lay
Last Line:
And waking then I'll sing my patron's praise
Author:
Robert Gould (Absolute)
DMI number:
4570

61. On piety humanity is built

First Line:
On piety humanity is built
Last Line:
The first in heaven and sets his foot on hell
Author:
Edward Young (Absolute)
DMI number:
33712

62. Proud and partial man alone

First Line:
Proud and partial man alone
Last Line:
Think they know most in their own eyes
DMI number:
14098

63. Pius the fifth is dead and understood

First Line:
Pius the fifth is dead and understood
Last Line:
For none were good indeed though five in name
DMI number:
41943

64. Placed on the verge of youth my mind

First Line:
Placed on the verge of youth my mind
Last Line:
And curbs the headlong tide
Author:
James Merrick (Absolute)
DMI number:
32285

65. Pollio must needs to penitence excite

First Line:
Pollio must needs to penitence excite
Last Line:
And damns the love of fame for which he writes
DMI number:
16706

66. Rome your forefathers sins you'll rue

First Line:
Rome your forefathers sins you'll rue
Last Line:
And shall yet leave a more degenerate breed
DMI number:
41839

67. Returning morn composed my pensive lay

First Line:
Returning morn composed my pensive lay
Last Line:
Perfecting nature moral and divine
DMI number:
21769

68. Right wele of lerned clerkis is it sed

First Line:
Right wele of lerned clerkis is it sed
Last Line:
Pardie he fearing it away doth fly
Author:
James Harris (Absolute)
DMI number:
27768

69. Right wele of lernid clerkis is it sed

First Line:
Right wele of lernid clerkis is it sed
Last Line:
Pardie he fearing it away doth fly
Author:
James Harris (Absolute)
DMI number:
40509

70. Said Old Nick to St Michael you use me but ill

First Line:
Said Old Nick to St Michael you use me but ill
Last Line:
Slipped him into church service and called him a dean
DMI number:
18184

71. Saint Sarah and Tom

First Line:
Saint Sarah and Tom
Last Line:
And so they serve God and the devil
DMI number:
36849

72. Short syne there was a wretched miser

First Line:
Short syne there was a wretched miser
Last Line:
What use his friends make of his gear
Author:
Allan Ramsay (Absolute)
DMI number:
15366

73. Seek not for paradise with curious eye

First Line:
Seek not for paradise with curious eye
Last Line:
And form a paradise of inward peace
Author:
Henry Taylor (Absolute)
DMI number:
27835

74. Self exhaltation viewed in every light

First Line:
Self exhaltation viewed in every light
Last Line:
And none can ever hurt them but themselves
DMI number:
23328

75. Serve God that made you whilst you have your breath

First Line:
Serve God that made you whilst you have your breath
Last Line:
And give not heed to every idle story
DMI number:
36722

76. Since popery of late is so much in debate

First Line:
Since popery of late is so much in debate
Last Line:
And so there's an end of a story
Author:
Walter Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
42976

77. Stern winter clad in frost and snow

First Line:
Stern winter clad in frost and snow
Last Line:
His convert launched beneath the ice
DMI number:
36802

78. Stop gentle youth and view this clod

First Line:
Stop gentle youth and view this clod
Last Line:
And peace shall be the Christian's end
DMI number:
34193

79. Some ladies plan their lives and forms by three

First Line:
Some ladies plan their lives and forms by three
Last Line:
Sham saints' soft tinder seldom fails to catch
DMI number:
36838

80. Such her devotion is as might give rules

First Line:
Such her devotion is as might give rules
Last Line:
Yet still she prays for stull she prays by deeds
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
6857

81. Strange and unnatural let's stay and see

First Line:
Strange and unnatural let's stay and see
Last Line:
And all thy damned forefathers were from Martell down to Pen
DMI number:
42375

82. Strange state of wishes hopes and fears

First Line:
Strange state of wishes hopes and fears
Last Line:
For every blessing comes from him
DMI number:
36030

83. Take an ivory globe and lay it

First Line:
Take an ivory globe and lay it
Last Line:
Let not the foul fiend soil again
DMI number:
32374

84. The curious wonders we preserve with care

First Line:
The curious wonders we preserve with care
Last Line:
Into the holy of holyest we admit
DMI number:
43282

85. The doctrine of grace

First Line:
The doctrine of grace
Last Line:
The devil may take all the rest
DMI number:
35333

86. The paip that pagane full of pryde

First Line:
The paip that pagane full of pryde
Last Line:
And heisit thair hippis on hie | Hay trix tryme go trix under the grene wod-trie
Author:
John Wedderburn (Confident)
DMI number:
10956

87. The humble man can like the ozier bend

First Line:
The humble man can like the ozier bend
Last Line:
The image of thy soul and picture of thy face
DMI number:
26200

88. Then know this truth enough for man to know

First Line:
Then know this truth enough for man to know
Last Line:
Since but to wish more virtue is to gain
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
30938

89. The sun still sets and leaves the earth to night

First Line:
The sun still sets and leaves the earth to night
Last Line:
You rise a Phoebus from a sea of tears
DMI number:
42739

90. The weather was cloudy the billows ran high

First Line:
The weather was cloudy the billows ran high
Last Line:
Look look with our crimes where old Domine sails
DMI number:
11170

91. There's many talk of Robin Hood

First Line:
There's many talk of Robin Hood
Last Line:
And a la mode are oaths and pride
DMI number:
36918

92. This young man inclined to the ways of Old Nick

First Line:
This young man inclined to the ways of Old Nick
Last Line:
What they do it is done in the fear of the Lord
DMI number:
35332

93. Those ills your ancestors have done

First Line:
Those ills your ancestors have done
Last Line:
With all the pains we take have skill enough to be
Author:
Wentworth Dillon (Absolute)
DMI number:
927

94. Thou heaven born gift of more exalted kind

First Line:
Thou heaven born gift of more exalted kind
Last Line:
Sublimely bright beyond the power to die
DMI number:
36220

95. Three kings to the king of kings three gifts did bring

First Line:
Three kings to the king of kings three gifts did bring
Last Line:
Submissive prayers for pure gold a pure heart
DMI number:
43728

96. To thee dear God with eager haste

First Line:
To thee dear God with eager haste
Last Line:
And fill my vast desire
DMI number:
4067

97. To an ignorant crowd thus a Methodist raved

First Line:
To an ignorant crowd thus a Methodist raved
Last Line:
Tis the size of the crimes makes the mercy complete
DMI number:
36074

98. To shew the matchless worth of truth divine

First Line:
To shew the matchless worth of truth divine
Last Line:
Who live the subjects of redeeming grace
DMI number:
36271

99. To expect thy doctrine followed were absurd

First Line:
To expect thy doctrine followed were absurd
Last Line:
When thy life shows thou creditest not a word
DMI number:
17425

100. Twas one day in lent that two clergymen met

First Line:
Twas one day in lent that two clergymen met
Last Line:
He'll ask who required these things at your hand
DMI number:
25085