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1. A nymph with ilka beauty graced

First Line:
A nymph with ilka beauty graced
Last Line:
These underplotters countermine
Author:
Allan Ramsay (Absolute)
DMI number:
15363

2. Asses milk half a pint take at seven or before

First Line:
Asses milk half a pint take at seven or before
Last Line:
And those you may end when you please to be kind
Author:
Philip Dormer Stanhope (Absolute)
DMI number:
19574

3. Asses milk half a pint take at six or before

First Line:
Asses milk half a pint take at six or before
Last Line:
And those you may end when you please to be kind
Author:
Philip Dormer Stanhope (Absolute)
DMI number:
24468

4. Be merry free and kind

First Line:
Be merry free and kind
Last Line:
Be sure make stout resistance
DMI number:
25137

5. Be prudent ladies marry while you may

First Line:
Be prudent ladies marry while you may
Last Line:
Which was of late adored in every place
DMI number:
43515

6. Courtier if thou needs would wive

First Line:
Courtier if thou needs would wive
Last Line:
Gain her servants and thee honour
DMI number:
44241

7. Dear Peggy since the single state

First Line:
Dear Peggy since the single state
Last Line:
And blushing throw the pen aside
DMI number:
25334

8. Gather your rose buds while you may

First Line:
Gather your rose buds while you may
Last Line:
You may for ever tarry
DMI number:
43004

9. He that intends to take a wife

First Line:
He that intends to take a wife
Last Line:
Confess no trouble like unto a wife
DMI number:
43141

10. If she be not kind as fair

First Line:
If she be not kind as fair
Last Line:
That takes delight in sporting
DMI number:
43866

11. Observe this good rule and learn it by heart

First Line:
Observe this good rule and learn it by heart
Last Line:
Likewise a vile landlord who doubles your score
DMI number:
36917

12. Poor citizen if thou wilt be

First Line:
Poor citizen if thou wilt be
Last Line:
Where such a citizen doth dwell
DMI number:
44242

13. Silvia with the wheel I send

First Line:
Silvia with the wheel I send
Last Line:
Bliss of body and of mind
DMI number:
32363

14. Scrape scrape no more your beardless chins

First Line:
Scrape scrape no more your beardless chins
Last Line:
But gather'd fail in taste and smell
DMI number:
44436

15. She that intends ever in rest to be

First Line:
She that intends ever in rest to be
Last Line:
Till Atropos unloose the nuptial knot
DMI number:
43517

16. Take thou a wife of seventeen years

First Line:
Take thou a wife of seventeen years
Last Line:
Your house will be a hell
DMI number:
36911

17. Sylvia in days of yore had been

First Line:
Sylvia in days of yore had been
Last Line:
Despised by every maid at last
DMI number:
33477

18. Trust women ah fond man may rather trust

First Line:
Trust women ah fond man may rather trust
Last Line:
Consists but in the outside of a face &c
DMI number:
43723

19. Why sighs each virgin for the nuptial bed

First Line:
Why sighs each virgin for the nuptial bed
Last Line:
Lose not for man what man can never give
DMI number:
33626

20. Within a virgin's bosom of fifteen

First Line:
Within a virgin's bosom of fifteen
Last Line:
And may deservedly lead apes in hell
DMI number:
43514