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1. A fatal error tis in men of wealth

First Line:
A fatal error tis in men of wealth
Last Line:
To feed so high as will destroy their health
DMI number:
23381

2. A bumper yes may for a while

First Line:
A bumper yes may for a while
Last Line:
To mingle with the low
DMI number:
35322

3. A coffeehouse a parrot cage

First Line:
A coffeehouse a parrot cage
Last Line:
Or do not talk at all
DMI number:
32359

4. A horse in science deeply skilled

First Line:
A horse in science deeply skilled
Last Line:
Listen alone to nature's voice
DMI number:
31192

5. 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

6. Accept sweet maid each scene that Shakespeare drew

First Line:
Accept sweet maid each scene that Shakespeare drew
Last Line:
May Zara long live happy with a white one
DMI number:
33462

7. Accept these lines dear miss I to you send

First Line:
Accept these lines dear miss I to you send
Last Line:
To make us useful here and fit for heaven
DMI number:
26273

8. Accustom early in your youth

First Line:
Accustom early in your youth
Last Line:
A thousand perish by repletion
DMI number:
23377

9. Advice Cosmelia by the wise is loved

First Line:
Advice Cosmelia by the wise is loved
Last Line:
The precept this the bright example you
DMI number:
12737

10. Ah wretched man whom neither fate can please

First Line:
Ah wretched man whom neither fate can please
Last Line:
The universal Monarch Man is only poor
DMI number:
43646

11. Alas a fault confessed were half amended

First Line:
Alas a fault confessed were half amended
Last Line:
Where no receivers are would be no thieves
DMI number:
32151

12. Almighty maker father friend

First Line:
Almighty maker father friend
Last Line:
Above the starry skies
DMI number:
33133

13. Are you grown so melancholy

First Line:
Are you grown so melancholy
Last Line:
Let the pox be your friend and the plague be your end | And this will cure you
DMI number:
43106

14. As a fair nymph when rising from her bed

First Line:
As a fair nymph when rising from her bed
Last Line:
And frightened naiads dive into the floods
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
22501

15. As I have oftentimes and long since too

First Line:
As I have oftentimes and long since too
Last Line:
If thou ever lovst me break not my command
Author:
Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:
42203

16. Awake vain man 'tis time the abuse to see

First Line:
Awake vain man 'tis time the abuse to see
Last Line:
But strive not to legitimate your blood
DMI number:
43067

17. Attend ye fair while briefly I relate

First Line:
Attend ye fair while briefly I relate
Last Line:
Live unlamented and unpitied die
DMI number:
40645

18. Attend ye fair while I impart

First Line:
Attend ye fair while I impart
Last Line:
Would you be fair be good
DMI number:
35202

19. Attend ye numerous daring throng who strive

First Line:
Attend ye numerous daring throng who strive
Last Line:
And still invoke the auspicious muse's name
Author:
Catharine Cockburn [nee Trotter] (Absolute)
DMI number:
23534

20. As you are young if you'll be also wise

First Line:
As you are young if you'll be also wise
Last Line:
Or ungenteel to say I fear a god
Author:
Anne Killigrew (Speculation)
DMI number:
23728

21. 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

22. 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

23. Asterie why dost thou mourn

First Line:
Asterie why dost thou mourn
Last Line:
Thou art hard still hard remain
Author:
Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:
42104

24. Be charmed my friend by neither love nor wine

First Line:
Be charmed my friend by neither love nor wine
Last Line:
Beyond these bounds they will destructive prove
Author:
John Morrice (Absolute)
DMI number:
13789

25. Be good with spirit and with parts be just

First Line:
Be good with spirit and with parts be just
Last Line:
Where virtuous men enjoy themselves with God
DMI number:
30599

26. Be merry free and kind

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

27. 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

28. Be steadfast to thine own

First Line:
Be steadfast to thine own
Last Line:
Always the unknown snare
DMI number:
49134

29. Be thou not in a rage my friend

First Line:
Be thou not in a rage my friend
Last Line:
Adieu my friend I've done with thee
DMI number:
15349

30. Beauteous Chloris while thou dost enjoy

First Line:
Beauteous Chloris while thou dost enjoy
Last Line:
Too young too old too nice too free too slow destroys your pleasures
DMI number:
44168

31. Begin my friend to uncommon things aspire

First Line:
Begin my friend to uncommon things aspire
Last Line:
It would be good to read and to converse with thee
DMI number:
12687

32. Brave Aelius sprung from an heroic line

First Line:
Brave Aelius sprung from an heroic line
Last Line:
Armour of proof against ill weather
Author:
Thomas Flatman (Absolute)
DMI number:
42116

33. Behold what lustres now adorn

First Line:
Behold what lustres now adorn
Last Line:
Your influence past will never return again
DMI number:
30084

34. 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

35. Blush not redder than the morning

First Line:
Blush not redder than the morning
Last Line:
Ah ah they part they part for ever | Lest old time &c
Author:
Nathaniel Lee (Confident)
DMI number:
42786

36. Blush not redder than the morning

First Line:
Blush not redder than the morning
Last Line:
Ah then they part they part for ever | Lest &c
Author:
Nathaniel Lee (Confident)
DMI number:
42530

37. Blush not redder than the morning

First Line:
Blush not redder than the morning
Last Line:
And they'll part they'll part forever
Author:
Nathaniel Lee (Confident)
DMI number:
42284

38. Beneath a court's luxuriant skies

First Line:
Beneath a court's luxuriant skies
Last Line:
Millers will evermore abound
DMI number:
33464

39. Car-men turn poets now why may not I

First Line:
Car-men turn poets now why may not I
Last Line:
With far more fame thanks to your scribbling lies
DMI number:
43110

40. Brothers in servitude attend my theme

First Line:
Brothers in servitude attend my theme
Last Line:
Rules to our words our actions and our lives
Author:
Robert Dodsley (Absolute)
DMI number:
30082

41. But if diseases thou hast none

First Line:
But if diseases thou hast none
Last Line:
And make thy body ten times worse
DMI number:
43731

42. Bring me a man with animating strokes

First Line:
Bring me a man with animating strokes
Last Line:
These worst of times and time itself survive
DMI number:
43061

43. Britons awake your country's cause

First Line:
Britons awake your country's cause
Last Line:
And choose right honest Knightley
DMI number:
24451

44. Cease to defend your amorous heart

First Line:
Cease to defend your amorous heart
Last Line:
And all his darts receive
DMI number:
43597

45. Cleon if you would have me true

First Line:
Cleon if you would have me true
Last Line:
Is never safe nor easy on her throne
DMI number:
43224

46. Come and behold good brother Hugh

First Line:
Come and behold good brother Hugh
Last Line:
Even this will be their life
DMI number:
25700

47. 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

48. Come my dainty doxies

First Line:
Come my dainty doxies
Last Line:
We drink we drab we cheat we shuffle
Author:
Thomas Middleton (Absolute)
DMI number:
43088

49. Dear brother you will think that now

First Line:
Dear brother you will think that now
Last Line:
And all their damning censures antedate
DMI number:
43479

50. Dear brother | thy marrying humour I dare scarce upbraid

First Line:
Dear brother | thy marrying humour I dare scarce upbraid
Last Line:
The punishment to serve the parson's cure
DMI number:
43437