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1. A cruel tiger all with teeth be bled

First Line:
A cruel tiger all with teeth be bled
Last Line:
Hath slain us both for cloaking of his crime
DMI number:
9071

2. Ah Jenny Gin your eyes do kill

First Line:
Ah Jenny Gin your eyes do kill
Last Line:
Upon this flowery plain
DMI number:
42813

3. Ah love how wayward is his wit what pangs do pierce his breast

First Line:
Ah love how wayward is his wit what pangs do pierce his breast
Last Line:
To them that mean by honest means to come to happy end
DMI number:
9061

4. Ah me that ever I was born

First Line:
Ah me that ever I was born
Last Line:
Till with a marble tomb I'm pressed
DMI number:
42753

5. Ah Coridon in vain you boast

First Line:
Ah Coridon in vain you boast
Last Line:
Cloris was true and I deserve her shame
Author:
Henry Neville Payne (Confident)
DMI number:
42538

6. Arise ye winds from your rough caves

First Line:
Arise ye winds from your rough caves
Last Line:
And then she laid her down and died
DMI number:
42801

7. Come old time and use thy sickle

First Line:
Come old time and use thy sickle
Last Line:
Any real blessings here
DMI number:
5113

8. Cloris I come to learn my fate

First Line:
Cloris I come to learn my fate
Last Line:
What she so long delayed
DMI number:
42541

9. Coy Delia why must I pursue

First Line:
Coy Delia why must I pursue
Last Line:
Twill cancel the cause of my wound
DMI number:
16574

10. Damon thou never loved me yet

First Line:
Damon thou never loved me yet
Last Line:
When love inflames but so in part
DMI number:
44237

11. Darkness does now the world surround

First Line:
Darkness does now the world surround
Last Line:
I'll haste to slumber in the grave
DMI number:
42764

12. Francelia's heart is still the same

First Line:
Francelia's heart is still the same
Last Line:
Beauty takes delight in killing
DMI number:
42433

13. Give me leave to rail at you

First Line:
Give me leave to rail at you
Last Line:
And makes the slave grow pleased again
Author:
John Wilmot (Confident)
DMI number:
42299

14. Give me leave to rail at you

First Line:
Give me leave to rail at you
Last Line:
And makes the slaves grow pleased again
Author:
John Wilmot (Confident)
DMI number:
4129

15. Give me leave to rail at you

First Line:
Give me leave to rail at you
Last Line:
And quell the rebel in your arms
Author:
John Wilmot (Confident)
DMI number:
25372

16. Gently ah gently lady touch the wound

First Line:
Gently ah gently lady touch the wound
Last Line:
For I too weak for bleeding grow
DMI number:
42676

17. Good ladies ye that have your pleasures in exile

First Line:
Good ladies ye that have your pleasures in exile
Last Line:
Do your good will to cure a wight that liveth in distress
Author:
Henry Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
8729

18. How vile are the sordid intrigues of the town

First Line:
How vile are the sordid intrigues of the town
Last Line:
A curse of the monsieurs what luck have I
Author:
Thomas D'Urfey (Absolute)
DMI number:
8225

19. I came and looked and liked loved

First Line:
I came and looked and liked loved
Last Line:
Which lost she may repent
DMI number:
43350

20. In a sad unfrequented cyprus grove

First Line:
In a sad unfrequented cyprus grove
Last Line:
Give him a thousand thousand joys beside
DMI number:
41843

21. In Chloe's frowns I read my fate

First Line:
In Chloe's frowns I read my fate
Last Line:
And gain my Chloe's heart
DMI number:
12808

22. In winter's just return when Boreas gan his reign

First Line:
In winter's just return when Boreas gan his reign
Last Line:
But to the heavens so it fled for to receive his doom
Author:
Henry Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
8728

23. Insulting charmer of my languished heart

First Line:
Insulting charmer of my languished heart
Last Line:
Together both expire
Author:
John Wilmot (Absolute)
DMI number:
42285

24. Like as the lark within the merlion's foot

First Line:
Like as the lark within the merlion's foot
Last Line:
Then let it forth if it may do you good
DMI number:
49415

25. Love let me have my mistress such

First Line:
Love let me have my mistress such
Last Line:
Mandrake to all eternity
DMI number:
43346

26. My life & my death are both in your power

First Line:
My life & my death are both in your power
Last Line:
I'll forgive the cruel author of all my past pain
DMI number:
43192

27. I'm a rogue if I know how my living to get

First Line:
I'm a rogue if I know how my living to get
Last Line:
And live above want or reproach
DMI number:
6228

28. I'll tell her the next time said I

First Line:
I'll tell her the next time said I
Last Line:
My breath is spent in sighs my eyes are drowned in tears
DMI number:
43212

29. I love I dote I rave with pain

First Line:
I love I dote I rave with pain
Last Line:
For breaking my poor heart
Author:
Thomas Otway (Absolute)
DMI number:
3946

30. Nay pish nay pew

First Line:
Nay pish nay pew
Last Line:
You've killed me at last
DMI number:
5368

31. No joy have I but live in heaviness

First Line:
No joy have I but live in heaviness
Last Line:
Unhappy I am unless I find release
DMI number:
9064

32. Now by my love the greatest oath that is

First Line:
Now by my love the greatest oath that is
Last Line:
They comprehend a vast eternity
DMI number:
43994

33. O happy dames that may embrace

First Line:
O happy dames that may embrace
Last Line:
Now he comes will he come alas no
Author:
Henry Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
8727

34. O cruel Mary great's the woe

First Line:
O cruel Mary great's the woe
Last Line:
Or a faithful lover
DMI number:
25113

35. Obscure the glories of your eyes

First Line:
Obscure the glories of your eyes
Last Line:
So deep you start to see
DMI number:
42238

36. O yes o yes o yes I cry

First Line:
O yes o yes o yes I cry
Last Line:
Fond love can do
DMI number:
8296

37. Powers on high

First Line:
Powers on high
Last Line:
And do not all my joys control
DMI number:
42807

38. Silvio when will you be kind

First Line:
Silvio when will you be kind
Last Line:
For fear you should inconstant prove
DMI number:
43222

39. So ravishing fair is the nymph that I love

First Line:
So ravishing fair is the nymph that I love
Last Line:
She has to destroy me overwhelmed in love's tower
DMI number:
42783

40. So feeble is the thread that doth the burden stay

First Line:
So feeble is the thread that doth the burden stay
Last Line:
And if for weight the body fail the soul shall to her flee
Author:
Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:
8831

41. Since Celia's my foe

First Line:
Since Celia's my foe
Last Line:
For loving but one
Author:
Thomas Duffett (Absolute)
DMI number:
42544

42. Since fortune's wrath envieth the wealth

First Line:
Since fortune's wrath envieth the wealth
Last Line:
Your own what would you more of me
Author:
Henry Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
8738

43. Smiling Phillis has an air

First Line:
Smiling Phillis has an air
Last Line:
And I daily love her better
DMI number:
42539

44. Sylvia tell me how long it will be

First Line:
Sylvia tell me how long it will be
Last Line:
For you are the cause of my anguish
DMI number:
44150

45. Take heed fair Chloris how you tame

First Line:
Take heed fair Chloris how you tame
Last Line:
So bright as in these arms of mine
DMI number:
44182

46. Sweet my Ambition is only to love ye

First Line:
Sweet my Ambition is only to love ye
Last Line:
Love mighty love has now heaped upon me
DMI number:
43197

47. The jolly jolly breeze

First Line:
The jolly jolly breeze
Last Line:
Till death doth end my sorrow
DMI number:
8312

48. There's not a swain on the plain

First Line:
There's not a swain on the plain
Last Line:
Can you be can you be so hard to me
DMI number:
44430

49. Thestilis a silly man when love did him foresake

First Line:
Thestilis a silly man when love did him foresake
Last Line:
If that I die it shall be said that thou hast slain thine own
DMI number:
8896

50. Thou rising sun whose gladsome ray

First Line:
Thou rising sun whose gladsome ray
Last Line:
Away to Orra haste away
DMI number:
15155