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1. A late epistle having chose

First Line:: A late epistle having chose
Last Line:: For every booby that can write
DMI number:: 19786

2. Accept dear girl the trifle that I send

First Line:: Accept dear girl the trifle that I send
Last Line:: And may amuse you at your leisure hours
DMI number:: 33813

3. Accept dear Hal and kindly use

First Line:: Accept dear Hal and kindly use
Last Line:: May the itch of writing leave my friend
DMI number:: 10060

4. Accept my lord the tribute which I bring

First Line:: Accept my lord the tribute which I bring
Last Line:: And find not Timon but a Ch-nd-s there
DMI number:: 19702

5. After venting all my spite

First Line:: After venting all my spite
Last Line:: I to laugh and you grow wise
Author:: Jonathan Swift (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11316

6. Again I urge my old objection

First Line:: Again I urge my old objection
Last Line:: I sit to represent the King
Author:: Robert Lloyd (Absolute)
DMI number:: 32358

7. As those who frequently resort

First Line:: As those who frequently resort
Last Line:: Le H-nt and Daniel Wr-y esq
DMI number:: 19584

8. As to some great and wealthy lord

First Line:: As to some great and wealthy lord
Last Line:: Can do such things most purely
DMI number:: 10066

9. As papist when his restiff saint

First Line:: As papist when his restiff saint
Last Line:: To find your humble servant there
DMI number:: 3881

10. Begin my friend to uncommon things aspire

First Line:: Begin my friend to uncommon things aspire
Last Line:: It would be good to read and to converse with thee
DMI number:: 12687

11. Brave Nero's favourite my Julius

First Line:: Brave Nero's favourite my Julius
Last Line:: By the lads whose privilege is to be jolly
DMI number:: 42212

12. Believe me Rose however this Con may please

First Line:: Believe me Rose however this Con may please
Last Line:: But you fond boy may prove a phaeton
DMI number:: 11396

13. Born for a court and versed in every art

First Line:: Born for a court and versed in every art
Last Line:: I who to sweet content do every good confine
DMI number:: 8966

14. By the butcher's boy on Tuesday night

First Line:: By the butcher's boy on Tuesday night
Last Line:: Your crazy brains and cool your mettle
Author:: Samuel Butler (Speculation)
DMI number:: 8641

15. Cease sir to conquer or I cease to write

First Line:: Cease sir to conquer or I cease to write
Last Line:: I stop at once admire and hold my tongue
DMI number:: 8969

16. Come Thomas give us t' other sonnet

First Line:: Come Thomas give us t' other sonnet
Last Line:: Your most obliged and humble servant
Author:: Lewis Thomas (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22180

17. Come Thomas give us t' other sonnet

First Line:: Come Thomas give us t' other sonnet
Last Line:: Your most obliged humble servant
Author:: Lewis Thomas (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27727

18. Charmed with the lettered lustre of the press

First Line:: Charmed with the lettered lustre of the press
Last Line:: To save unwilling friends in vain is labour tried
DMI number:: 25780

19. Cinthia may blush that poorly could admit

First Line:: Cinthia may blush that poorly could admit
Last Line:: Without a blush what love bids her indite
DMI number:: 5318

20. Clarinda loves the polished line

First Line:: Clarinda loves the polished line
Last Line:: Must pay her vows to love
DMI number:: 35632

21. Dear Bob | Enraptured with your rural sport

First Line:: Dear Bob | Enraptured with your rural sport
Last Line:: Merit that fame and worth that peace secures
DMI number:: 35368

22. Cooper how foolish would that author be

First Line:: Cooper how foolish would that author be
Last Line:: It may a while be thumbed and then forgot
Author:: John Oldmixon (Speculation)
DMI number:: 6205

23. Cowper how foolish would that author be

First Line:: Cowper how foolish would that author be
Last Line:: It may a while be thumbed and then forgot
DMI number:: 8970

24. Daphnis because I am your debtor

First Line:: Daphnis because I am your debtor
Last Line:: I rest your very humble servant
Author:: Aphra Behn (Confident)
DMI number:: 41818

25. Dear to my heart my joy my pride

First Line:: Dear to my heart my joy my pride
Last Line:: Pray let your answer be as long
Author:: Samuel Whyte (Speculation)
DMI number:: 34007

26. Dear Tom how melancholy I am grown

First Line:: Dear Tom how melancholy I am grown
Last Line:: And wit that at a quibble never fails
Author:: Richard Duke (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8705

27. Dear sir if rhyming will go down

First Line:: Dear sir if rhyming will go down
Last Line:: I'm half jocund half grave you'll see | Still | yours eternally | J C
DMI number:: 32220

28. Dear sir when I received your letter

First Line:: Dear sir when I received your letter
Last Line:: And write you rhyme when they play pools | At Mr T--s
DMI number:: 35345

29. Dear Sir | No single rule's more frequently enjoined

First Line:: Dear Sir | No single rule's more frequently enjoined
Last Line:: Write on however unqualified to write
Author:: Edward Rolle (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22629

30. Enough my friend your muse's power is seen

First Line:: Enough my friend your muse's power is seen
Last Line:: Give me their patrons and keep thou thy muse
DMI number:: 12549

31. Dryden thy wit has caterwauled too long

First Line:: Dryden thy wit has caterwauled too long
Last Line:: Why then the marvel that a poet sins
DMI number:: 42324

32. Friend to my verse ask me no more

First Line:: Friend to my verse ask me no more
Last Line:: Who wounds to heal and strikes to save
DMI number:: 19765

33. For what should I my sleeping muse awake

First Line:: For what should I my sleeping muse awake
Last Line:: Twas a good oyster gentlemen adieu
DMI number:: 8963

34. Flavia to you with safety I commend

First Line:: Flavia to you with safety I commend
Last Line:: And left the monarch's breast to seek some safer shade
Author:: Nicholas Rowe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3840

35. Garth you as well may bid me scale the sky

First Line:: Garth you as well may bid me scale the sky
Last Line:: That oft the doctor's worse than the disease
DMI number:: 7223

36. Hail courteous youth whoever thou art that deignst

First Line:: Hail courteous youth whoever thou art that deignst
Last Line:: Tis better far to please the heart than head
DMI number:: 24256

37. Having heard that your doggrel's in mighty renown

First Line:: Having heard that your doggrel's in mighty renown
Last Line:: He may make me jackall in his next German war | I am dear friend yours sincerely
DMI number:: 31139

38. His moving elegies when Ovid wrote

First Line:: His moving elegies when Ovid wrote
Last Line:: Condemned to absence and her cold disdain
DMI number:: 7006

39. How shall I thank thee noble dame

First Line:: How shall I thank thee noble dame
Last Line:: I'm ever yours | E--a B--e
DMI number:: 35347

40. I got your present with your letter

First Line:: I got your present with your letter
Last Line:: Youi may command them when you please
DMI number:: 25041

41. In frolic's hour ere serious thought had birth

First Line:: In frolic's hour ere serious thought had birth
Last Line:: To warn and scare be wanting think of me
Author:: Sneyd Davies (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27839

42. In frolick's hour ere serious thought had birth

First Line:: In frolick's hour ere serious thought had birth
Last Line:: To warn and scare be wanting think of me
Author:: Sneyd Davies (Absolute)
DMI number:: 34977

43. In frolick's hour ere serious thoughts had birth

First Line:: In frolick's hour ere serious thoughts had birth
Last Line:: To warn and scare be wanting think of me
Author:: Sneyd Davies (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37023

44. In vain great sir keen satire I disown

First Line:: In vain great sir keen satire I disown
Last Line:: But both the poem and the fact are true
DMI number:: 8962

45. In vain my muse I bid you hold in vain

First Line:: In vain my muse I bid you hold in vain
Last Line:: For ever now farewell a long adieu
DMI number:: 8971

46. Loaded my lord with cares of state

First Line:: Loaded my lord with cares of state
Last Line:: An English dean or Irish bishop
Author:: Jonathan Smedley (Confident)
DMI number:: 11528

47. Letters are winged postillions and do move

First Line:: Letters are winged postillions and do move
Last Line:: Else all commerce and love twixt men would die
DMI number:: 43530

48. Licinius yesterday at leisure

First Line:: Licinius yesterday at leisure
Last Line:: How you provoke her will not spare
DMI number:: 8536

49. Mun rarely credit common fame

First Line:: Mun rarely credit common fame
Last Line:: The praise she gave was unsuspected
Author:: George Stepney (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6574

50. My dear Zelinda since you would explore

First Line:: My dear Zelinda since you would explore
Last Line:: That wisdom taste and virtue can bestow
DMI number:: 25864

51. I the other day received your letter

First Line:: I the other day received your letter
Last Line:: While my name's B--ce
DMI number:: 35323

52. If ever my humble muse melodious sings

First Line:: If ever my humble muse melodious sings
Last Line:: And what the god inspired the priestess spoke
Author:: William Broome (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7319

53. I've prayed and threatened yet tis all in vain

First Line:: I've prayed and threatened yet tis all in vain
Last Line:: With health long life and friends
DMI number:: 35344

54. Let D---ks and D---er stupid legends write

First Line:: Let D---ks and D---er stupid legends write
Last Line:: Whose pens are not less fatal than their swords
Author:: Samuel Phillips (Confident)
DMI number:: 5168

55. Let my endeavours as my hopes depend

First Line:: Let my endeavours as my hopes depend
Last Line:: Your humble servant sir I've done no more
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8650

56. Madam | Long have I looked my tablets over

First Line:: Madam | Long have I looked my tablets over
Last Line:: Where wishes can have place no more
DMI number:: 32600

57. Near Eden side there is a hero known

First Line:: Near Eden side there is a hero known
Last Line:: He's now musician lover and a poet
DMI number:: 35341

58. No single rule's more frequently enjoined

First Line:: No single rule's more frequently enjoined
Last Line:: Write on however unqualified to write
Author:: Edward Rolle (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23564

59. Now thou dear Will and every friend's withdrawn

First Line:: Now thou dear Will and every friend's withdrawn
Last Line:: By representing to relieve his pains
DMI number:: 3835

60. O say dear Laelius can that person please

First Line:: O say dear Laelius can that person please
Last Line:: And owe their virtue and their bliss to you
DMI number:: 19357

61. Oh with what art Racine dost thou inspire

First Line:: Oh with what art Racine dost thou inspire
Last Line:: Leave thou to Pradon such a senseless pit
DMI number:: 8968

62. Oh could we touch like you the sacred lyre

First Line:: Oh could we touch like you the sacred lyre
Last Line:: That labour Garth is yours and yours is fame
Author:: John Oldmixon (Confident)
DMI number:: 6187

63. Oh thou that kindly ope'st the press

First Line:: Oh thou that kindly ope'st the press
Last Line:: That money makes of bards like me
DMI number:: 32470

64. One restless hour when sleep was fled

First Line:: One restless hour when sleep was fled
Last Line:: The faults of my uncultivated muse
DMI number:: 9659

65. Patron of verse O Halifax attend

First Line:: Patron of verse O Halifax attend
Last Line:: And listens to the concert of the year
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 20624

66. Permit me friends to virtue sons of fame

First Line:: Permit me friends to virtue sons of fame
Last Line:: Nor reap my thanks alone but heaven's reward
DMI number:: 26250

67. Pray tell me Harry tell me true

First Line:: Pray tell me Harry tell me true
Last Line:: To give me some account but write
DMI number:: 6029

68. Read fair maid and know the heat

First Line:: Read fair maid and know the heat
Last Line:: That thus canst make a poet chaste
DMI number:: 5634

69. Right thus honourable and so forth whereas tis confessed

First Line:: Right thus honourable and so forth whereas tis confessed
Last Line:: I've received to the credit of profit and loss
DMI number:: 26998

70. Sacred to thee permit this lay

First Line:: Sacred to thee permit this lay
Last Line:: And live the censor of the times
Author:: John Bancks [Banks] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 20754

71. Sir | As once a twelve month to the priest

First Line:: Sir | As once a twelve month to the priest
Last Line:: And wreaths round William's glorious head
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3934

72. Sir | Since to poetry yet you were never much inclined

First Line:: Sir | Since to poetry yet you were never much inclined
Last Line:: Your servant and friend with respect most profound
DMI number:: 11296

73. Sir | Your noble present of right red-streak

First Line:: Sir | Your noble present of right red-streak
Last Line:: Then pray make haste to town and help to drink it | I am Sir &c
DMI number:: 11789

74. Since nor Peru nor Mexico afford

First Line:: Since nor Peru nor Mexico afford
Last Line:: And wanting flames all perish in the fire
DMI number:: 5167

75. Since your good mistress and my master

First Line:: Since your good mistress and my master
Last Line:: Your friend in haste from age to age
Author:: Samuel Butler (Speculation)
DMI number:: 8643

76. Supposing your college

First Line:: Supposing your college
Last Line:: Remember his fate and so parson adieu
DMI number:: 9648

77. Some verse dear Tom for pity's sake

First Line:: Some verse dear Tom for pity's sake
Last Line:: The tenure shall be copy hold
Author:: Samuel Whyte (Speculation)
DMI number:: 35212

78. Surprized delighted and amazed

First Line:: Surprized delighted and amazed
Last Line:: You cannot therefore ill succeed
DMI number:: 9655

79. The hero who to Smyrna bay

First Line:: The hero who to Smyrna bay
Last Line:: Though wrote with care are wrote with ease
Author:: Thomas Lisle (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27847

80. The great ones justly Johnny Gay

First Line:: The great ones justly Johnny Gay
Last Line:: For plundering but an Indian king
DMI number:: 35071

81. The British bards have been debating long

First Line:: The British bards have been debating long
Last Line:: I leave my cause and no injustice fear
DMI number:: 7226

82. The labours of a Dublin day

First Line:: The labours of a Dublin day
Last Line:: And Betty here bring L----n's ode
DMI number:: 25670

83. This little pamphlet's sent to you

First Line:: This little pamphlet's sent to you
Last Line:: I've stretched beyond my first intent
DMI number:: 22343

84. Though angels doubless might delight

First Line:: Though angels doubless might delight
Last Line:: Their empire over mankind
DMI number:: 36045

85. Thou as laborious as thy master kind

First Line:: Thou as laborious as thy master kind
Last Line:: To handle as he's wont the watering pot
DMI number:: 8972

86. Thou sweetest mourner of the plaintive band

First Line:: Thou sweetest mourner of the plaintive band
Last Line:: And Britain's treasures flourish with thy bays
DMI number:: 22336

87. Till now I own my partial kindness swayed

First Line:: Till now I own my partial kindness swayed
Last Line:: And wing your daring flight to endless flame
DMI number:: 6504

88. To thee once more by duteous raptures pressed

First Line:: To thee once more by duteous raptures pressed
Last Line:: Their unfledged young and if they wink they die
DMI number:: 9963

89. To thee Orinda I may safely send

First Line:: To thee Orinda I may safely send
Last Line:: To break rough laws and baulk the government
DMI number:: 10280

90. To wake the soul by every power sublime

First Line:: To wake the soul by every power sublime
Last Line:: And breathes the notes of Virtue to the ear
DMI number:: 38518

91. To thee dear friend who pruned my fluttering wing

First Line:: To thee dear friend who pruned my fluttering wing
Last Line:: And give delight to the beholding crew
DMI number:: 10255

92. Tis strange that you to whom I've long been known

First Line:: Tis strange that you to whom I've long been known
Last Line:: And leave the bishops to reform the age
DMI number:: 3647

93. To a man's head suppose a painter joins

First Line:: To a man's head suppose a painter joins
Last Line:: Sticks like a leach nor drops till full of blood
Author:: William Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25786

94. To whom should I but to Cornelius make

First Line:: To whom should I but to Cornelius make
Last Line:: Beyond an age that are inscribed to thee
DMI number:: 8594

95. To prove a vacuum in thy brain

First Line:: To prove a vacuum in thy brain
Last Line:: Write as this pattern is --
DMI number:: 35355

96. Vinius as you have heard me oft command

First Line:: Vinius as you have heard me oft command
Last Line:: And oh beware lest my commands you break
DMI number:: 25767

97. Wearied with vain pursuits and humble grown

First Line:: Wearied with vain pursuits and humble grown
Last Line:: Homer on less occasion had run mad
Author:: Joseph Mitchell (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33835

98. What quit the pleasures of the laurel grove

First Line:: What quit the pleasures of the laurel grove
Last Line:: Keep you your logic I'll indulge my muse
DMI number:: 11288

99. When Dryden late with cares and age distressed

First Line:: When Dryden late with cares and age distressed
Last Line:: And future ages shall thy labours bless
DMI number:: 5170

100. When rarely now to public eyes confessed

First Line:: When rarely now to public eyes confessed
Last Line:: Thy generous hand has reared his shrine in vain
DMI number:: 35974