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1. All the corruptions of a land repair

First Line:
All the corruptions of a land repair
Last Line:
To courts and fill them with unwholsome air
Author:
John Crowne (Absolute)
DMI number:
14097

2. And what are courts but camps of misery

First Line:
And what are courts but camps of misery
Last Line:
And those they do advance they ruin too
Author:
Samuel Daniel (Absolute)
DMI number:
14073

3. As when the sea breaks over its bounds

First Line:
As when the sea breaks over its bounds
Last Line:
To keep it out are made defend it
DMI number:
40299

4. Be careful to avoid both courts and camps

First Line:
Be careful to avoid both courts and camps
Last Line:
To throw her away on fools and knaves
Author:
Thomas Otway (Absolute)
DMI number:
18547

5. Be still and learn the smoothing arts of courts

First Line:
Be still and learn the smoothing arts of courts
Last Line:
And when they praise him most be you the loudest
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
18544

6. Brave peers of England pillars of the state

First Line:
Brave peers of England pillars of the state
Last Line:
Undoing all as all had never been
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
35020

7. Bertram has been taught the art of courts

First Line:
Bertram has been taught the art of courts
Last Line:
To gild a face with smiles and leer a man to ruin
DMI number:
39382

8. Bertram has been taught the arts of courts

First Line:
Bertram has been taught the arts of courts
Last Line:
To gild a face with smiles and leer a man to ruin
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
18548

9. But courtiers are to be accounted good

First Line:
But courtiers are to be accounted good
Last Line:
When they are not the last and worst of men
DMI number:
18553

10. But if all court secrets come to light what

First Line:
But if all court secrets come to light what
Last Line:
Many have been swallowed and so may this
DMI number:
40931