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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:: John Hervey (Speculation) & Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont] (Confident)
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:: William Windham (Absolute) & John Hervey (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:: James Bramston (Speculation) & John Hervey (Speculation) & Philip Dormer Stanhope (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:: James Bramston (Speculation) & John Hervey (Speculation) & Philip Dormer Stanhope (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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Tis somewhat that exists within

First Line:: Tis somewhat that exists within
Last Line:: Yet know not why nor what it is
Author:: John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12126

14. To N-----k House lords knights and squires repair

First Line:: To N-----k House lords knights and squires repair
Last Line:: Bad is its head but ten times worse its heart
Author:: Philip Dormer Stanhope (Confident) & John Hervey (Confident)
DMI number:: 17908

15. Two hopeful sons are sprung from -- loins

First Line:: Two hopeful sons are sprung from -- loins
Last Line:: The prattling monkey or the lump of lead
Author:: Philip Dormer Stanhope (Confident) & John Hervey (Confident)
DMI number:: 17909

16. What shall I say to fix thy wavering mind

First Line:: What shall I say to fix thy wavering mind
Last Line:: And all that man can taste of heaven below
Author:: John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25721

17. What shall I say to fix thy wavering mind

First Line:: What shall I say to fix thy wavering mind
Last Line:: That passion burns which once thy vows professed
Author:: John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25552

18. What do scholars and bards and astronomers wise

First Line:: What do scholars and bards and astronomers wise
Last Line:: For Richmond that evening had lent her her face
Author:: John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:: 40498

19. What do scholars and bards and philosophers wise

First Line:: What do scholars and bards and philosophers wise
Last Line:: For Richmond that night had lent her her face
Author:: John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:: 1129

20. When the great Earl of B---- with most dog-like submission

First Line:: When the great Earl of B---- with most dog-like submission
Last Line:: And enjoy that still life which you always called blessed
Author:: John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18259

21. When the heart aches with anguish pines with grief

First Line:: When the heart aches with anguish pines with grief
Last Line:: And dread the prospect of succeeding woe
Author:: John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22496

22. Why wears my pensive friend that gloomy brow

First Line:: Why wears my pensive friend that gloomy brow
Last Line:: Her rules are fixed and all her ways are just
Author:: John Hervey (Absolute)
DMI number:: 1128