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991.
What ere I shift my clothes can he not stay
First Line:
What ere I shift my clothes can he not stay
Last Line:
But which is worse does threaten all that write
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:
38876
992.
What five long acts and all to make us wiser
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What five long acts and all to make us wiser
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Do you spare her and I'll for once spare you
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith (Absolute)
DMI number:
31754
993.
What flocks of critics hover here today
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What flocks of critics hover here today
Last Line:
Such rivelled fruits as winter can afford
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
35776
994.
What Greece when learning flourished only knew
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What Greece when learning flourished only knew
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But tis your suffrage makes authentic wit
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
4018
995.
What arts have we not tried what labour taken
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What arts have we not tried what labour taken
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And make you in a pet our house forswear
DMI number:
5475
996.
What hazards poets run in times like these
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What hazards poets run in times like these
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The fair at home shall crown your toils with love
DMI number:
38988
997.
What horrors fill the tragic poet's brain
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What horrors fill the tragic poet's brain
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And critics then attack him if ye dare
Author:
George Colman (Absolute)
DMI number:
33932
998.
What if to end this fortune telling play
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What if to end this fortune telling play
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And whether good or bad tis as you find it
Author:
Susanna Centlivre (Absolute)
DMI number:
39049
999.
Were it not sirs impossible to find
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Were it not sirs impossible to find
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If bad comes on it I know twas well designed
Author:
George Saville Carey (Speculation)
DMI number:
40515
1000.
Were none of you gallants ever driven so hard
First Line:
Were none of you gallants ever driven so hard
Last Line:
The gaudy house with scenes will serve for cits
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
4028
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