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1. A pleasing subject first with care provide

First Line:
A pleasing subject first with care provide
Last Line:
And sure to please although ten times repeated
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
3045

2. Ah kind physician thy receipt will prove

First Line:
Ah kind physician thy receipt will prove
Last Line:
He can prescribe in love and write receipts
Author:
John Hervey (Speculation)
DMI number:
25077

3. Fashioned alike by nature and by art

First Line:
Fashioned alike by nature and by art
Last Line:
In private life by all who knew her loved
Author:
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont] (Confident) & John Hervey (Speculation)
DMI number:
17574

4. Forbear my dear Stephen with a fruitless desire

First Line:
Forbear my dear Stephen with a fruitless desire
Last Line:
And taste not expect what hereafter will bestow
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
25551

5. Forbear my dear Strephon with fruitless desire

First Line:
Forbear my dear Strephon with fruitless desire
Last Line:
And take not expect what hereafter'll bestow
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
18831

6. For think how few the joys allowed by fate

First Line:
For think how few the joys allowed by fate
Last Line:
And find with meaner charms one common doom
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
30934

7. In two large columns on thy motley page

First Line:
In two large columns on thy motley page
Last Line:
Wander like him accursed through the land
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute) & William Windham (Absolute) & Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont] (Absolute)
DMI number:
12337

8. Old I to show his most elegant taste

First Line:
Old I to show his most elegant taste
Last Line:
With a clump of scotch firs by way of a screen
Author:
Philip Dormer Stanhope (Speculation) & James Bramston (Speculation) & John Hervey (Speculation) & Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (Speculation)
DMI number:
26812

9. Old I------y to show a most elegant taste

First Line:
Old I------y to show a most elegant taste
Last Line:
With a clump of Scots firs by way of a screen
Author:
Philip Dormer Stanhope (Speculation) & James Bramston (Speculation) & John Hervey (Speculation) & Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (Speculation)
DMI number:
17978

10. Reader attend and if thine eye let fall

First Line:
Reader attend and if thine eye let fall
Last Line:
You've lived in paradise she dwells in heaven
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
17653