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1. A pox on rhymes and physic S---ly cried

First Line:
A pox on rhymes and physic S---ly cried
Last Line:
My papers may but thou canst never be spoiled
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3579

2. Advice to P----rs the adviser's zeal may prove

First Line:
Advice to P----rs the adviser's zeal may prove
Last Line:
Religion is a trick you never have known
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3588

3. B----d with noisy cures may make us smile

First Line:
B----d with noisy cures may make us smile
Last Line:
But fame gives out he neither cures nor kills
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3608

4. B--n thou believest thou'rt famous for a jest

First Line:
B--n thou believest thou'rt famous for a jest
Last Line:
Thou never will't have thy reckoning paid again
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3630

5. Be not puffed up with punning friend of mine

First Line:
Be not puffed up with punning friend of mine
Last Line:
Thou hast been Ush but never canst be Phiz
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3599

6. Bold man of war the drift of thy designs

First Line:
Bold man of war the drift of thy designs
Last Line:
Or S-----d should absolve him as a friend
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3584

7. Codron may please the ladies as he writes

First Line:
Codron may please the ladies as he writes
Last Line:
Such fops as thou can never please the men
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3594

8. Dame Fortune's just malicious fool I see

First Line:
Dame Fortune's just malicious fool I see
Last Line:
And rises when thou canst not lower fall
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3600

9. Friend by my soul the devil's in thy quill

First Line:
Friend by my soul the devil's in thy quill
Last Line:
Or thou the man for whom he judges thee
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3595

10. How B---n was born in garret or in cell

First Line:
How B---n was born in garret or in cell
Last Line:
His epigrams are only born to die
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3626

11. Job as thou sayst being willing to forget

First Line:
Job as thou sayst being willing to forget
Last Line:
Dies of it self and's born to be forgot
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3614

12. I tell thee man thy charges I defy

First Line:
I tell thee man thy charges I defy
Last Line:
And that's the way to make him cease to write
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3625

13. If B----re labours as he writes to please

First Line:
If B----re labours as he writes to please
Last Line:
As if cannot fall it cannot rise
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3605

14. If bards would have a shortlived poem writ

First Line:
If bards would have a shortlived poem writ
Last Line:
To file the rust of wit from P----ck's sense
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3583

15. If coffee does awake the senses keep

First Line:
If coffee does awake the senses keep
Last Line:
And only run 'em over for sleepings sake
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3598

16. If Arthur from a ravished parent came

First Line:
If Arthur from a ravished parent came
Last Line:
Writing dost still commit a rape on sense
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3627

17. If knighthood only be the hero's right

First Line:
If knighthood only be the hero's right
Last Line:
When thou just savedst thy self and that is one
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3610

18. If monarch's as you'll have't on trust reward

First Line:
If monarch's as you'll have't on trust reward
Last Line:
That author's baulked who waits rewards from you
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3603

19. If wit as thou art told is a disease

First Line:
If wit as thou art told is a disease
Last Line:
He cannot purge off humours where are none
Author:
Thomas Brown (Confident) & Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3622

20. If shitten lines should wipe a shitten a-se

First Line:
If shitten lines should wipe a shitten a-se
Last Line:
Is dust to dust but here it's t---d to t---d
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3601