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1. A manly wit a child's simplicity

First Line:: A manly wit a child's simplicity
Last Line:: Striking their aching bosoms here lies Gay
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16357

2. Come Alecto and lend me thy torch

First Line:: Come Alecto and lend me thy torch
Last Line:: Therefore gentlemen be merry in prose
DMI number:: 23877

3. England Netherland the heavens and the arts

First Line:: England Netherland the heavens and the arts
Last Line:: The soldiers the grief the world his good name
DMI number:: 34010

4. England Netherlands the heavens and the arts

First Line:: England Netherlands the heavens and the arts
Last Line:: All soldiers the grief the world his good name
DMI number:: 23885

5. Do pious marble let thy reader know

First Line:: Do pious marble let thy reader know
Last Line:: An everlasting monument to thee
DMI number:: 28478

6. Do pious marble let thy readers know

First Line:: Do pious marble let thy readers know
Last Line:: An everlasting monument to thee
DMI number:: 17656

7. Good friend for Jesus sake forbear

First Line:: Good friend for Jesus sake forbear
Last Line:: And cursed be he that removes my bones
DMI number:: 28442

8. Here lyes ye corps of William Prynne

First Line:: Here lyes ye corps of William Prynne
Last Line:: Death crops off remnant of his luggs
DMI number:: 34992

9. Here placed near Chaucer Spenser claims a room

First Line:: Here placed near Chaucer Spenser claims a room
Last Line:: But now declined it fears with thee to die
DMI number:: 34035

10. Here Johnson lies who spent his days

First Line:: Here Johnson lies who spent his days
Last Line:: I mourn but must not say a due
DMI number:: 35012

11. Here lies a proof that wit can never be

First Line:: Here lies a proof that wit can never be
Last Line:: The world admires and the muses praise
DMI number:: 23933

12. Here lies D'Ablancourt that renowned sage

First Line:: Here lies D'Ablancourt that renowned sage
Last Line:: Who lost the most the living or the dead
DMI number:: 25187

13. Here lies the lyric who with tale and song

First Line:: Here lies the lyric who with tale and song
Last Line:: His song has ended and his tale has told
DMI number:: 13506

14. Here to a period is the scrivener come

First Line:: Here to a period is the scrivener come
Last Line:: When he hath all done then he falls to dust
DMI number:: 29518

15. Heroes and kings your distance keep

First Line:: Heroes and kings your distance keep
Last Line:: Let Horace blush and Virgil too
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 26082

16. My master Chaucer with his fresh comedies

First Line:: My master Chaucer with his fresh comedies
Last Line:: Sith of out language he was the lodestar
DMI number:: 29060

17. If ever warm benevolence was dear

First Line:: If ever warm benevolence was dear
Last Line:: While taste and science crown this favoured shore
DMI number:: 34321

18. Not all thy squibs thy quiddities and joke

First Line:: Not all thy squibs thy quiddities and joke
Last Line:: The wit the mimic satirist is dead
DMI number:: 35641

19. Praised by the grandsires of the present age

First Line:: Praised by the grandsires of the present age
Last Line:: And lived so long but to behold it die
Author:: Allen Bathurst (Confident)
DMI number:: 24928

20. Renowned Spenser lie a thought more nigh

First Line:: Renowned Spenser lie a thought more nigh
Last Line:: Honour hereafter to be laid by thee
Author:: William Basse (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17652

21. Read Tickel's name and gently tread the clay

First Line:: Read Tickel's name and gently tread the clay
Last Line:: A mourning heart and ever-flowing tear
DMI number:: 40626

22. Reader with awe approach this sacred bust

First Line:: Reader with awe approach this sacred bust
Last Line:: None ever soared so high or more lamented fell
DMI number:: 34268

23. Sterne rest for ever and no longer fear

First Line:: Sterne rest for ever and no longer fear
Last Line:: Great were his faults but glorious was his flame
Author:: Jael Henrietta Pye [nee Mendez; other married name Campbell] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 34325

24. Stop passenger

First Line:: Stop passenger
Last Line:: The latter by possession
DMI number:: 21059

25. Strangers this tomb's inscription makes appear

First Line:: Strangers this tomb's inscription makes appear
Last Line:: Kindly survey when young when old they prize
DMI number:: 8592

26. The poet Hipponax lies here

First Line:: The poet Hipponax lies here
Last Line:: And if it please you sleep
DMI number:: 15979

27. The muses fairest light in no dark time

First Line:: The muses fairest light in no dark time
Last Line:: Returning all her music with her own
DMI number:: 29044

28. This Sheffield raised the sacred dust below

First Line:: This Sheffield raised the sacred dust below
Last Line:: Was Dryden's once the rest who does not know
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 26039

29. Thy relics Rowe to this fair shrine we trust

First Line:: Thy relics Rowe to this fair shrine we trust
Last Line:: What a whole thankless land to his denied
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7407

30. To real merit due this humble song

First Line:: To real merit due this humble song
Last Line:: In scenes of perfect purity and love
DMI number:: 24964

31. Under this weeping monumental stone

First Line:: Under this weeping monumental stone
Last Line:: Where if there's any drink he'll find it out
DMI number:: 44537

32. What need my Shakespeare for his honoured bones

First Line:: What need my Shakespeare for his honoured bones
Last Line:: That kings for such a tomb would wish to die
Author:: John Milton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17690

33. While sacred bard far worlds thy works proclaim

First Line:: While sacred bard far worlds thy works proclaim
Last Line:: May Cowley's dust this marble shrine defend
DMI number:: 33934

34. While through the world thy labours shine

First Line:: While through the world thy labours shine
Last Line:: Affront thy venerable dust
DMI number:: 17390

35. While through the world thy labours shine

First Line:: While through the world thy labours shine
Last Line:: And make this stone for ever live
DMI number:: 7814

36. Whoever thou art who seest this honoured shrine

First Line:: Whoever thou art who seest this honoured shrine
Last Line:: The only part of Thornton which could die
DMI number:: 34327

37. Whom Phoebus favoured on whom fortune frowned

First Line:: Whom Phoebus favoured on whom fortune frowned
Last Line:: From pitying heaven to end his cares a grave
DMI number:: 24024

38. Yorick farewell peace dwell around thy stone

First Line:: Yorick farewell peace dwell around thy stone
Last Line:: Oh let me weed this nettle from thy grave
DMI number:: 34326

39. You that the ashes of the muses mourn

First Line:: You that the ashes of the muses mourn
Last Line:: Look down there palms and lasting laurels grow
Author:: Edward Ward (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8009

40. You weeping marbles monuments we trust

First Line:: You weeping marbles monuments we trust
Last Line:: That laid up manna for posterities
DMI number:: 29421