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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. A pleasing subject first with care provide

First Line:
A pleasing subject first with care provide
Last Line:
Nor fear twill tire though seven times repeated
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
24108

3. 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

4. Before you sign poor Sophonisba's doom

First Line:
Before you sign poor Sophonisba's doom
Last Line:
Who lived unhappily and greatly died
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
25550

5. Ere death these closing eyes for ever shade

First Line:
Ere death these closing eyes for ever shade
Last Line:
Death may dissolve but nothing change her love
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
25548

6. 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

7. Forbear my dear Ste with fruitless desire

First Line:
Forbear my dear Ste with fruitless desire
Last Line:
And take not expect what hereafter'll bestow
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
40388

8. Forbear my dear Stephen with a fruitless desire

First Line:
Forbear my dear Stephen with a fruitless desire
Last Line:
And take not expect what hereafter'll bestow
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
29226

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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:
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont] (Absolute) & John Hervey (Absolute) & William Windham (Absolute)
DMI number:
12337

13. 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:
James Bramston (Speculation) & Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (Speculation) & Philip Dormer Stanhope (Speculation) & John Hervey (Speculation)
DMI number:
26812

14. 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:
James Bramston (Speculation) & Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (Speculation) & Philip Dormer Stanhope (Speculation) & John Hervey (Speculation)
DMI number:
17978

15. Possessed of one great hall for state

First Line:
Possessed of one great hall for state
Last Line:
And all mankind how ill you dwell
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
24711

16. Rare architect in whose exotic school

First Line:
Rare architect in whose exotic school
Last Line:
The devil would or mortal can reside
DMI number:
38658

17. 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

18. Since language never can describe my pain

First Line:
Since language never can describe my pain
Last Line:
Tis all I ask eternally adieu
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
25328

19. Think not I write my innocence to prove

First Line:
Think not I write my innocence to prove
Last Line:
Be any curse my punishment but thee
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
24433

20. Thou dearest youth who taught me first to know

First Line:
Thou dearest youth who taught me first to know
Last Line:
And love his memory as you loved his verse
Author:
John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:
34