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1. A healthful body and a peaceful breast

First Line:
A healthful body and a peaceful breast
Last Line:
Of all the gifts of providence are best
DMI number:
35440

2. Absurdly craft and wisdom we confound

First Line:
Absurdly craft and wisdom we confound
Last Line:
Craft packs the cards but wisdom plays the game
DMI number:
6192

3. Advice Cosmelia by the wise is loved

First Line:
Advice Cosmelia by the wise is loved
Last Line:
The precept this the bright example you
DMI number:
12737

4. And why so wondrous pleased I pray I guess

First Line:
And why so wondrous pleased I pray I guess
Last Line:
Your picture lively drawn and character
DMI number:
6070

5. Amidst your train this unseen judge will wait

First Line:
Amidst your train this unseen judge will wait
Last Line:
You'll sit and hood your sorrows on a throne
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
5531

6. Chloe tis past dispute that you

First Line:
Chloe tis past dispute that you
Last Line:
What they gave you do you give me
DMI number:
22022

7. Compassion proper to mankind appears

First Line:
Compassion proper to mankind appears
Last Line:
To us for mutual aid celestial sense
Author:
Nahum Tate (Absolute)
DMI number:
5537

8. Doomed to cross roads unsafe rough deep narrow

First Line:
Doomed to cross roads unsafe rough deep narrow
Last Line:
Then safely turn thy back upon the load
DMI number:
35046

9. Ease dulls the spirit each drop of fond delight

First Line:
Ease dulls the spirit each drop of fond delight
Last Line:
Allays the thirst which glory doth excite
DMI number:
17173

10. Friend thou art yoked and canst not help the thing

First Line:
Friend thou art yoked and canst not help the thing
Last Line:
Throw her upon her back and all is done
Author:
Samuel Sheppard (Confident)
DMI number:
5638

11. From flower to flower with eager pains

First Line:
From flower to flower with eager pains
Last Line:
But if we plunge too deep destroy
DMI number:
17375

12. Gay youth observe with constant care

First Line:
Gay youth observe with constant care
Last Line:
And work thy dissolution
DMI number:
36720

13. From thy confessor lawyer and physician

First Line:
From thy confessor lawyer and physician
Last Line:
Hide not thy case or state on no condition
DMI number:
41952

14. Go said old Lyce senseless lover go

First Line:
Go said old Lyce senseless lover go
Last Line:
And that which most enraged me was 'twas true
Author:
William Walsh (Absolute)
DMI number:
6668

15. He that intends to cultivate his parts

First Line:
He that intends to cultivate his parts
Last Line:
Will crown our age with pleasure and content
DMI number:
35448

16. Hence far hence unthinking swain

First Line:
Hence far hence unthinking swain
Last Line:
In pasture with thy lowing kine
Author:
Edward Burnaby Greene (Absolute)
DMI number:
31487

17. Honour in the breech is lodged

First Line:
Honour in the breech is lodged
Last Line:
Hurts honour than deep wounds before
DMI number:
31551

18. How weak's that parent whose untimely care

First Line:
How weak's that parent whose untimely care
Last Line:
Enjoyment soonest makes the passion cease
DMI number:
12841

19. However you may for beauty bear the bell

First Line:
However you may for beauty bear the bell
Last Line:
Yet ever to ring changes sounds not well
Author:
Thomas Bancroft (Confident)
DMI number:
17103

20. In travel pilgrims do oft ask and know

First Line:
In travel pilgrims do oft ask and know
Last Line:
The journey's better than the journey's end
DMI number:
17155

21. Impatient man why do I grieve and mourn

First Line:
Impatient man why do I grieve and mourn
Last Line:
If none my grief is fruitless and in vain
DMI number:
4351

22. In working well if travail you sustain

First Line:
In working well if travail you sustain
Last Line:
And noble virtues fair renown pursue
Author:
Nicholas Grimald (Absolute)
DMI number:
49376

23. If Scaeva for more friends you care

First Line:
If Scaeva for more friends you care
Last Line:
If you no want of friendly virtues see
Author:
Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:
13096

24. If you to honour's pinacle would rise

First Line:
If you to honour's pinacle would rise
Last Line:
And eternize it in the court of fame
DMI number:
35439

25. If youth and beauty fade my dear

First Line:
If youth and beauty fade my dear
Last Line:
To give what none can give away
Author:
Samuel Wesley (Absolute)
DMI number:
13508

26. If youth and beauty fade my dear

First Line:
If youth and beauty fade my dear
Last Line:
To give what none can take away
Author:
Samuel Wesley (Absolute)
DMI number:
14782

27. Labeo with Lucia is ever at strife

First Line:
Labeo with Lucia is ever at strife
Last Line:
We still have a wish and must have a fear
DMI number:
12855

28. Let heroes boast of hearts for slaughter made

First Line:
Let heroes boast of hearts for slaughter made
Last Line:
The most compassionate is most a man
DMI number:
12837

29. Laugh if thou art wise sweet pretty maiden laugh

First Line:
Laugh if thou art wise sweet pretty maiden laugh
Last Line:
Though others laugh good soul awake and weep
DMI number:
17367

30. Marry late my dear friend you may ask me what then

First Line:
Marry late my dear friend you may ask me what then
Last Line:
Kill your wife by a quack and never marry again
DMI number:
24811

31. Mammon's grown rich does Mammon boast of that

First Line:
Mammon's grown rich does Mammon boast of that
Last Line:
As well the stalled ox may boast he's fat
Author:
Francis Quarles (Absolute)
DMI number:
16994

32. None without hope ever loved the brightest fair

First Line:
None without hope ever loved the brightest fair
Last Line:
But love can hope where reason would despair
Author:
George Lyttelton (Absolute)
DMI number:
22318

33. Nature has made man's breast no windows

First Line:
Nature has made man's breast no windows
Last Line:
And signifies the same with none
Author:
Samuel Butler (Absolute)
DMI number:
5533

34. Not to be captious not unjustly fight

First Line:
Not to be captious not unjustly fight
Last Line:
Tis to confess what's wrong and do what's right
DMI number:
24965

35. Patience in cowards is tame hopeless fear

First Line:
Patience in cowards is tame hopeless fear
Last Line:
But in brave minds a scorn of what they bear
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute) & Sir Robert Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
5549

36. Our life's a journey in a winter's day

First Line:
Our life's a journey in a winter's day
Last Line:
Who dies betimes has less and less to pay
DMI number:
32148

37. Prithee good friend more cautious be

First Line:
Prithee good friend more cautious be
Last Line:
Thou canst not say 'twas I that did it
DMI number:
2291

38. Pray now grave sir spend not so much advice

First Line:
Pray now grave sir spend not so much advice
Last Line:
We cannot wonder at the frost below
DMI number:
17364

39. Saw not thy seid on Sandylands

First Line:
Saw not thy seid on Sandylands
Last Line:
For hurting of thy geir
DMI number:
10882

40. See ynder reed which now and then

First Line:
See ynder reed which now and then
Last Line:
Such bending reeds too often prove
DMI number:
24992

41. Seeing aright we see our woes

First Line:
Seeing aright we see our woes
Last Line:
The only wretched are the wise
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
5544

42. 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

43. The ass that carries me I'd rather ride

First Line:
The ass that carries me I'd rather ride
Last Line:
Than the proud horse that throws me quite beside
Author:
Rowland Watkyns (Absolute)
DMI number:
17077

44. Talk Strephon no more of what's honest and just

First Line:
Talk Strephon no more of what's honest and just
Last Line:
Who wrecks on that shelf where he stranded before
DMI number:
4010

45. That Macro's looks are good let no man doubt

First Line:
That Macro's looks are good let no man doubt
Last Line:
As they betray their master so did he
Author:
George Granville (Absolute)
DMI number:
12308

46. That thou no hurt of other men mayst take

First Line:
That thou no hurt of other men mayst take
Last Line:
The dove's offenceless nature apprehend
DMI number:
41903

47. The fair to folly easy to be led

First Line:
The fair to folly easy to be led
Last Line:
Trust no complexion too far with thy wife
DMI number:
41926

48. The bramble growis althocht it be obscure

First Line:
The bramble growis althocht it be obscure
Last Line:
Quhylis michty tempestis toss imperial mynds
Author:
William Alexander (Absolute)
DMI number:
10944

49. The king observing with judicious eyes

First Line:
The king observing with judicious eyes
Last Line:
How much that loyal body wanted learning
Author:
Joseph Trapp (Speculation)
DMI number:
31047

50. The learned Sydenham does not doubt

First Line:
The learned Sydenham does not doubt
Last Line:
Are tumbled back upon their britches
DMI number:
38631