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1. A doctor lately was a captain made

First Line:
A doctor lately was a captain made
Last Line:
It is a change of title not of trade
DMI number:
27578

2. A fortune take for better and for worse

First Line:
A fortune take for better and for worse
Last Line:
Tis then that man and wife are on the par
DMI number:
27508

3. A To town what cause or rather what ill star

First Line:
A To town what cause or rather what ill star
Last Line:
A You're a good man and the in Lord must trust
DMI number:
27370

4. A quack who stole his patient's cup did cry

First Line:
A quack who stole his patient's cup did cry
Last Line:
Caught in the fact what would you drink and die
DMI number:
27658

5. A little farm you purchase near the town

First Line:
A little farm you purchase near the town
Last Line:
The lawyer got which now the farmer buys
DMI number:
28265

6. Alike great Pompey and sage Tully bled

First Line:
Alike great Pompey and sage Tully bled
Last Line:
His was his master's crime but yours your own
DMI number:
27376

7. A worn out sailor charmed with Deptford strand

First Line:
A worn out sailor charmed with Deptford strand
Last Line:
That a sunk ship a tar's affairs retrieved
DMI number:
27957

8. An ensign's post you ask and that's denied

First Line:
An ensign's post you ask and that's denied
Last Line:
Ask for a colonel's less will hurt your pride
DMI number:
27976

9. All the companions of her grace I'm told

First Line:
All the companions of her grace I'm told
Last Line:
Without such foils is lady duchess fair
DMI number:
27583

10. All the great men take you away

First Line:
All the great men take you away
Last Line:
You're not a friend but a buffoon
DMI number:
27503

11. All the worst cider Hereford can make

First Line:
All the worst cider Hereford can make
Last Line:
For fear of drinking cider once your own
DMI number:
27696

12. Although your berlin always moves in state

First Line:
Although your berlin always moves in state
Last Line:
An easy fortune makes you thus uneasy
DMI number:
27687

13. As common fare when sausages and chine

First Line:
As common fare when sausages and chine
Last Line:
I like a dinner such as I can give
DMI number:
28012

14. At Bristol Tom from the mayor's feast was led

First Line:
At Bristol Tom from the mayor's feast was led
Last Line:
How safe are you who drunk but Bristol water
DMI number:
27980

15. At Chenevix poor little master cries

First Line:
At Chenevix poor little master cries
Last Line:
And when they smile for trifles sob at heart
DMI number:
27955

16. Blessed in thy spirit in thy husband blessed

First Line:
Blessed in thy spirit in thy husband blessed
Last Line:
Late is the proof of love when after death
Author:
William Hay (Absolute)
DMI number:
27397

17. Blessed with the morals of a former age

First Line:
Blessed with the morals of a former age
Last Line:
To lash the vices but the persons spare
DMI number:
27694

18. Both man and wife as bad as bad can be

First Line:
Both man and wife as bad as bad can be
Last Line:
I wonder they no better should agree
DMI number:
27558

19. Bob's name was booby now tis Bou-ou-bee

First Line:
Bob's name was booby now tis Bou-ou-bee
Last Line:
If I mistake is Bob or I to blame
DMI number:
27657

20. Believing hear what you deserve to hear

First Line:
Believing hear what you deserve to hear
Last Line:
Me to the world yours gave to me a friend
DMI number:
27644

21. By this small stone as great remains are hid

First Line:
By this small stone as great remains are hid
Last Line:
One man she held most dear and one alone
DMI number:
27950

22. By these stale arts a dinner you pursue

First Line:
By these stale arts a dinner you pursue
Last Line:
To dine today do so but then no news
DMI number:
27639

23. Bursting with envy is a wretch unknown

First Line:
Bursting with envy is a wretch unknown
Last Line:
May he even fret his guts to fiddle-strings
DMI number:
27659

24. By all that's good and sacred you do swear

First Line:
By all that's good and sacred you do swear
Last Line:
Pray don't forget a slice of your estate
DMI number:
27641

25. Childless and rich and born in Charles's reign

First Line:
Childless and rich and born in Charles's reign
Last Line:
The new will love you only under ground
DMI number:
27968

26. Chloe her seven dead husbands to lament

First Line:
Chloe her seven dead husbands to lament
Last Line:
Writes on each tomb she raised this monument
DMI number:
27635

27. Could witty Rochester return again

First Line:
Could witty Rochester return again
Last Line:
He'd silence Rochester for want of wit
DMI number:
27959

28. Dear squire take my advice your hunter spare

First Line:
Dear squire take my advice your hunter spare
Last Line:
Roper at last before the fox did die
DMI number:
27993

29. Do you an India Voyage then design

First Line:
Do you an India Voyage then design
Last Line:
Leave for your self a place amongst the rest
DMI number:
27699

30. Five wives hath he dispatched she husbands five

First Line:
Five wives hath he dispatched she husbands five
Last Line:
And then one funeral may serve them both
DMI number:
27564

31. Fraternal love in such strong currents runs

First Line:
Fraternal love in such strong currents runs
Last Line:
Live thou dear brother both thy days and mine
DMI number:
27319

32. Free from reserve you would to me appear

First Line:
Free from reserve you would to me appear
Last Line:
For he must more conceal who this could tell
DMI number:
28007

33. For twice ten years you to the hall resort

First Line:
For twice ten years you to the hall resort
Last Line:
For twenty years who sooner could be cast
DMI number:
27502

34. Fool that you are to mix your verse with mine

First Line:
Fool that you are to mix your verse with mine
Last Line:
When you another have which is of wood
DMI number:
27958

35. From Kew to town four hours I spent you rail

First Line:
From Kew to town four hours I spent you rail
Last Line:
Who sent your equippage in which I came
DMI number:
27978

36. Gratis your house old bachelors frequent

First Line:
Gratis your house old bachelors frequent
Last Line:
Yet none can let a house at higher rent
DMI number:
27981

37. Hail Taffi's day on which my race begun

First Line:
Hail Taffi's day on which my race begun
Last Line:
Why therefore choose such formal slavery
DMI number:
28260

38. He fawns for more though he his thousands touch

First Line:
He fawns for more though he his thousands touch
Last Line:
Fortune gives none enough but some too much
DMI number:
27990

39. He says not right who says that you are evil

First Line:
He says not right who says that you are evil
Last Line:
You an ill man you are a very devil
DMI number:
27986

40. He still is building patches up a door

First Line:
He still is building patches up a door
Last Line:
To lend you money I am building still
DMI number:
27640

41. Her years if numbered by her hairs I ween

First Line:
Her years if numbered by her hairs I ween
Last Line:
That lady elderly is scarce nineteen
DMI number:
27989

42. Her father dead alone no grief she knows

First Line:
Her father dead alone no grief she knows
Last Line:
But he who mourns in secret mourns indeed
DMI number:
27318

43. Himself he slew when he the foe would fly

First Line:
Himself he slew when he the foe would fly
Last Line:
What madness this for fear of death to die
DMI number:
27367

44. His lordship bought his last gay birthday dress

First Line:
His lordship bought his last gay birthday dress
Last Line:
Extremely good for he does never pay
DMI number:
27507

45. His lordship is arrived at seventy-five

First Line:
His lordship is arrived at seventy-five
Last Line:
Lives twice enjoying thus his former state
DMI number:
27692

46. His lordship's mornings were in hurry spent

First Line:
His lordship's mornings were in hurry spent
Last Line:
By feigning long his lordship did not feign
DMI number:
27494

47. How often do you ask me to go down

First Line:
How often do you ask me to go down
Last Line:
All that a servant cannot do I'll do
DMI number:
27372

48. How pleasant is this one horse chair

First Line:
How pleasant is this one horse chair
Last Line:
We three might pass the day full well
DMI number:
27999

49. I am I own and ever have been poor

First Line:
I am I own and ever have been poor
Last Line:
Fortune may make a cobler like to thee
DMI number:
27419

50. I am no genius you affirm and why

First Line:
I am no genius you affirm and why
Last Line:
Yours like the dirty giants in Guildhall
DMI number:
27643

51. I haunt your table led by my ill star

First Line:
I haunt your table led by my ill star
Last Line:
A master should himself no master have
DMI number:
27337

52. I drink a pint a gallon you for shame

First Line:
I drink a pint a gallon you for shame
Last Line:
Can you complain the wine is not the same
DMI number:
28003

53. In all the epigrams you write we trace

First Line:
In all the epigrams you write we trace
Last Line:
High seasoned like my dishes be my wit
DMI number:
27490

54. In leathern jack to drink much less I hate

First Line:
In leathern jack to drink much less I hate
Last Line:
Should correspond no better with the wine
DMI number:
27506

55. In midnight cups you grant all we propose

First Line:
In midnight cups you grant all we propose
Last Line:
Next morn neglect pray take a morning doze
DMI number:
27991

56. In epigram so happy is your strain

First Line:
In epigram so happy is your strain
Last Line:
Few yield the glory of the field in wit
DMI number:
27511

57. Is there a friend like those distinguished few

First Line:
Is there a friend like those distinguished few
Last Line:
I know indeed but dare not name that friend
DMI number:
27320

58. Jack and Tom haunt each bawdy house in town

First Line:
Jack and Tom haunt each bawdy house in town
Last Line:
To name for what you do is none of mine
DMI number:
27489

59. Jack buys an ancient cottage dismal foul

First Line:
Jack buys an ancient cottage dismal foul
Last Line:
Jack will not lodge so well as he will eat
DMI number:
27963

60. Jack's father's dead and left him without hope

First Line:
Jack's father's dead and left him without hope
Last Line:
To make Jack wish his father were alive
DMI number:
27388

61. My works the reader and the hearer praise

First Line:
My works the reader and the hearer praise
Last Line:
Am I to please the cook or please the guest
DMI number:
27652

62. My friends who round mount Caburn do abide

First Line:
My friends who round mount Caburn do abide
Last Line:
If not a chaise conveys us back again
DMI number:
27960

63. My lady modish doth this way devise

First Line:
My lady modish doth this way devise
Last Line:
The husband is by much the greater child
DMI number:
28340

64. More ease than masters servants lives afford

First Line:
More ease than masters servants lives afford
Last Line:
Think then though not a lord that you are more
Author:
William Hay (Absolute)
DMI number:
27655

65. My book a better traveller I send

First Line:
My book a better traveller I send
Last Line:
From a spring-head than from a standing lake
DMI number:
27663

66. My cause concerns not battery nor treason

First Line:
My cause concerns not battery nor treason
Last Line:
Now pray dear Sir one word about the sheep
DMI number:
27448

67. My epigrams are long in your conceit

First Line:
My epigrams are long in your conceit
Last Line:
But long the very distichs which you make
DMI number:
27365

68. I praise your doggerel verse believe your lie

First Line:
I praise your doggerel verse believe your lie
Last Line:
You promise much but one more wish have I
DMI number:
28009

69. I never did the gods importune

First Line:
I never did the gods importune
Last Line:
That Zoilus may hang himself
DMI number:
27398

70. I often bow your hat you never stir

First Line:
I often bow your hat you never stir
Last Line:
So once for all your humble servant sir
DMI number:
27439

71. I own in manors you have large command

First Line:
I own in manors you have large command
Last Line:
More once had Verres Cheatall now hath more
DMI number:
27369

72. I understand to send me you design

First Line:
I understand to send me you design
Last Line:
They may I cannot wait the muses' leisure
DMI number:
27500

73. If at threescore he lawyer do commence

First Line:
If at threescore he lawyer do commence
Last Line:
Say at what age he'll be a man of sense
DMI number:
27488

74. If a mewed quail by accident I had

First Line:
If a mewed quail by accident I had
Last Line:
Which if you like you're always welcome friend
DMI number:
27646

75. If I by chance a pullet have with egg

First Line:
If I by chance a pullet have with egg
Last Line:
In Covent garden more than Chelsea ground
DMI number:
27493

76. If I judge right our good old friend Sir John

First Line:
If I judge right our good old friend Sir John
Last Line:
That life is only life when we are well
DMI number:
27484

77. If I want money you have none you cry

First Line:
If I want money you have none you cry
Last Line:
Let my field travel with you if he please
DMI number:
28000

78. Less by his birth than by his merit known

First Line:
Less by his birth than by his merit known
Last Line:
Worth is short lived then nothing hold too dear
DMI number:
27462

79. Let me exhort you who my neighbour are

First Line:
Let me exhort you who my neighbour are
Last Line:
That batchelors drink claret and you port
DMI number:
27460

80. May I not live but were it in my power

First Line:
May I not live but were it in my power
Last Line:
Four not to see you go against the grain
DMI number:
27331

81. Me as a friend to supper you invite

First Line:
Me as a friend to supper you invite
Last Line:
If we must eat pray let us eat together
DMI number:
27373

82. Me would the widow wed she's old say I

First Line:
Me would the widow wed she's old say I
Last Line:
But if she older were I would comply
DMI number:
27670

83. None equal you in trees for ever green

First Line:
None equal you in trees for ever green
Last Line:
What a most noble house you do not keep
DMI number:
28014

84. No dinners presents he is no man's bail

First Line:
No dinners presents he is no man's bail
Last Line:
For fools of all sorts London is the place
DMI number:
27690

85. Ned prays that heaven may you with issue bless

First Line:
Ned prays that heaven may you with issue bless
Last Line:
That he may think you did not childless die
DMI number:
27970

86. Ned swears he never sups at home then Ned

First Line:
Ned swears he never sups at home then Ned
Last Line:
Not supping out goes supperless to bed
DMI number:
27423

87. Nell's teeth are white but Betty's teeth are brown

First Line:
Nell's teeth are white but Betty's teeth are brown
Last Line:
Hemmet's Nell's are but Betty's are her own
DMI number:
27422

88. Not in his will who from you used to clear

First Line:
Not in his will who from you used to clear
Last Line:
A hundred pound a year's a legacy
DMI number:
27632

89. Nothing I see your candour can exceed

First Line:
Nothing I see your candour can exceed
Last Line:
Yet I should choose some verses of your making
DMI number:
27363

90. Nothing more insolent than you in place

First Line:
Nothing more insolent than you in place
Last Line:
Is it then proper you should have a place
DMI number:
27401

91. O Grub Street famed for dying speech

First Line:
O Grub Street famed for dying speech
Last Line:
So bad a poet is secured
DMI number:
28262

92. Now the gay hours to meet the Pleiads run

First Line:
Now the gay hours to meet the Pleiads run
Last Line:
Keep to yourself your things give me my own
DMI number:
27948

93. O doctor learned as ever filled a chair

First Line:
O doctor learned as ever filled a chair
Last Line:
Employ each well in gratitude to heaven
DMI number:
27501

94. Often you ask solicitous as Bayes

First Line:
Often you ask solicitous as Bayes
Last Line:
Critic as well as friend and God bless you
DMI number:
27428

95. Oh degenerate age great Tully cried

First Line:
Oh degenerate age great Tully cried
Last Line:
Blame not our morals for it but your own
DMI number:
27649

96. Oh fortune is your justice lost

First Line:
Oh fortune is your justice lost
Last Line:
When grooms have gold upon their back
DMI number:
27953

97. Our friend who lately captive died in Spain

First Line:
Our friend who lately captive died in Spain
Last Line:
He in his dearer part doth still survive
DMI number:
27446

98. Pirithous his name you oft repeat

First Line:
Pirithous his name you oft repeat
Last Line:
He never gave he let Orestes take
DMI number:
27684

99. Perhaps you think more riches I desire

First Line:
Perhaps you think more riches I desire
Last Line:
Alms to the poor and presents to a friend
DMI number:
27637

100. Presents to living friends may have an eye

First Line:
Presents to living friends may have an eye
Last Line:
But soon will die away when you are dead
DMI number:
27561