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1. As in some wealthy trading town

First Line:: As in some wealthy trading town
Last Line:: Will more exalt you in the end
Author:: Mary Barber (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11374

2. Farewell to thy enticing vanity

First Line:: Farewell to thy enticing vanity
Last Line:: The treasure thou includest is dust and smoke
Author:: Nathan Field (Absolute) & John Fletcher (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17189

3. Freidom honour and nobillness

First Line:: Freidom honour and nobillness
Last Line:: Work for a place in paradyce | For thairin rings nae covetyce
Author:: William Dunbar (Absolute)
DMI number:: 10934

4. He that commits a sin shall quickly find

First Line:: He that commits a sin shall quickly find
Last Line:: Confess that heaven is neither deaf nor blind
Author:: Thomas Creech (Confident)
DMI number:: 7247

5. Maecenas mentioned in my odes to be

First Line:: Maecenas mentioned in my odes to be
Last Line:: That is to say unless his spleen abound
Author:: Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42188

6. Numicius to admire nothing at all

First Line:: Numicius to admire nothing at all
Last Line:: If not I pray make use of these with me
Author:: Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42194

7. Of Jupiter thus I find ywrite

First Line:: Of Jupiter thus I find ywrite
Last Line:: Whereof that other two hath lost
Author:: John Gower (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13126

8. Some specious titles fix unto their books

First Line:: Some specious titles fix unto their books
Last Line:: 'Tis money money money bears the sway
DMI number:: 43293

9. Some wicked men are rich some good men poor

First Line:: Some wicked men are rich some good men poor
Last Line:: Whilst wealth now flies to this man now to that
DMI number:: 32009

10. Though Madam Money look both brisk and gay

First Line:: Though Madam Money look both brisk and gay
Last Line:: But that pecuniae obediunt omnia
DMI number:: 43297