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1. All seek their ends and each would other cheat

First Line:
All seek their ends and each would other cheat
Last Line:
Tis who bids most for all men would be sold
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
19175

2. And though love's all the world's pretence

First Line:
And though love's all the world's pretence
Last Line:
Which all address and courtships made to
DMI number:
39861

3. And to be plain tis not your person

First Line:
And to be plain tis not your person
Last Line:
That my enamoured heart bewitches
DMI number:
39864

4. As Hesiod sings spread water over thy field

First Line:
As Hesiod sings spread water over thy field
Last Line:
Which makes us borrow what we cannot pay
Author:
Sir John Denham (Absolute)
DMI number:
13810

5. Are all my services forgot this morn

First Line:
Are all my services forgot this morn
Last Line:
Or with an Obolus relieve his wants
Author:
William Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
20388

6. Art thou a man and shamest thou not to beg

First Line:
Art thou a man and shamest thou not to beg
Last Line:
I would esteem the sin not thine but his
Author:
Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:
13713

7. At midnight thus the usurer steals untracked

First Line:
At midnight thus the usurer steals untracked
Last Line:
And feasts his eyes upon the shining mammon
Author:
Thomas Otway (Absolute)
DMI number:
20045

8. Base worldlings that despise all such as need

First Line:
Base worldlings that despise all such as need
Last Line:
Not knowing unto what themselves may come
Author:
Thomas Heywood (Absolute)
DMI number:
13715

9. Bounty and gifts lose more than they do find

First Line:
Bounty and gifts lose more than they do find
Last Line:
And so gifts laid for love do catch men wrath
Author:
Samuel Daniel (Absolute)
DMI number:
13803

10. Blow winds and crack your cheeks rage blow

First Line:
Blow winds and crack your cheeks rage blow
Last Line:
And show the heavens more just
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
37394

11. Bond damns the poor and hates them from his heart

First Line:
Bond damns the poor and hates them from his heart
Last Line:
Admits and leaves them providence's care
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
22426

12. But do not so I have five hundred crowns

First Line:
But do not so I have five hundred crowns
Last Line:
In all your business and necessities
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
37416

13. But I whom griping penury surrounds

First Line:
But I whom griping penury surrounds
Last Line:
With Massic Setin or renowned Falern
Author:
John Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:
28165

14. But the base miser starves amidst his store

First Line:
But the base miser starves amidst his store
Last Line:
Sits sadly pining and believes he's poor
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
5972

15. But when by man's audacious labour won

First Line:
But when by man's audacious labour won
Last Line:
To Ward to Waters Chartres or the devil
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
22422

16. Come forth state and wonder

First Line:
Come forth state and wonder
Last Line:
Since money this base money gan to have any
Author:
Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:
16653

17. Content is wealth the riches of the mind

First Line:
Content is wealth the riches of the mind
Last Line:
And happy he who can that treasure find
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
5560

18. Creditors my lord

First Line:
Creditors my lord
Last Line:
They have been beholden to
Author:
John Ford (Absolute)
DMI number:
14441

19. Daily and hourly proof | Tell us prosperity is at highest degree

First Line:
Daily and hourly proof | Tell us prosperity is at highest degree
Last Line:
Their own top-heavy state grubs up their root
Author:
George Chapman (Absolute)
DMI number:
17356

20. Dan Congreve spent in writing plays

First Line:
Dan Congreve spent in writing plays
Last Line:
And so might every dunce alive
Author:
Jonathan Swift (Absolute)
DMI number:
17291

21. Did gold base wretch corrupt mankind

First Line:
Did gold base wretch corrupt mankind
Last Line:
Upbraid the passive sword with guilt
Author:
John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:
30358

22. Dost think friend

First Line:
Dost think friend
Last Line:
My soul would be at large and feel no burden
Author:
James Shirley (Absolute)
DMI number:
14443

23. Divine money the soul of all things sublunary

First Line:
Divine money the soul of all things sublunary
Last Line:
And builds almshouses
Author:
James Shirley (Absolute)
DMI number:
16665

24. Farewell to thy enticing vanity

First Line:
Farewell to thy enticing vanity
Last Line:
The treasure thou includest is dust and smoke
Author:
Nathan Field (Absolute) & John Fletcher (Absolute)
DMI number:
17189

25. Fortune not much of humbling me can boast

First Line:
Fortune not much of humbling me can boast
Last Line:
Let us be fixed and our own masters still
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28030

26. For love in all his amorous battels

First Line:
For love in all his amorous battels
Last Line:
No advantage finds like goods and chattels
DMI number:
39641

27. For money is the only power

First Line:
For money is the only power
Last Line:
That all mankind falls down before
DMI number:
39858

28. For money like the swords of kings

First Line:
For money like the swords of kings
Last Line:
Is the last reason of all things
DMI number:
39865

29. For money tis that is the great

First Line:
For money tis that is the great
Last Line:
But so much money as twill bring
DMI number:
39862

30. For he that's born to be a beggar know

First Line:
For he that's born to be a beggar know
Last Line:
However he toils and traffics must die so
Author:
Thomas Heywood (Absolute) & William Rowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
13716

31. For his bounty

First Line:
For his bounty
Last Line:
That grew the more by reaping
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
13801

32. For I | Never yet did thunder with my vocal heel

First Line:
For I | Never yet did thunder with my vocal heel
Last Line:
As low as Styx or Stygia's bottom is
DMI number:
22057

33. For well I wot compared to all the rest

First Line:
For well I wot compared to all the rest
Last Line:
Oft times to begging are content to fall
Author:
Edmund Spenser (Absolute)
DMI number:
13712

34. For to be plain tis not my person

First Line:
For to be plain tis not my person
Last Line:
That your enamoured heart bewitches
Author:
Samuel Butler (Absolute)
DMI number:
28079

35. Fond men by passions wilfully betrayed

First Line:
Fond men by passions wilfully betrayed
Last Line:
If our abundance makes us wish for more
DMI number:
40094

36. Give thy thoughts no tongue

First Line:
Give thy thoughts no tongue
Last Line:
Thou canst not then be false to any man
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
32690

37. Glittering stones and golden things

First Line:
Glittering stones and golden things
Last Line:
We can never call our own
DMI number:
29673

38. Gold is of use to every sort of knave

First Line:
Gold is of use to every sort of knave
Last Line:
It does not only cover them but gild them
Author:
John Crowne (Absolute)
DMI number:
16667

39. Gold makes a patrician of a slave

First Line:
Gold makes a patrician of a slave
Last Line:
No bankrupt ever found a fair one kind
DMI number:
39639

40. Gold yellow glittering precious gold

First Line:
Gold yellow glittering precious gold
Last Line:
With senators on the bench
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
18984

41. Great Villers' fate sage Cutler could foresee

First Line:
Great Villers' fate sage Cutler could foresee
Last Line:
That I can do when all I have is gone
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
24862

42. Greatness of mind and fortune too

First Line:
Greatness of mind and fortune too
Last Line:
Fame and public love to gain
DMI number:
40091

43. Gross nurtured slaves who force their wretched souls

First Line:
Gross nurtured slaves who force their wretched souls
Last Line:
Begetting creatures ugly as themselves
Author:
John Ford (Absolute)
DMI number:
13619

44. Grant but ten thousand pounds Philaurus cries

First Line:
Grant but ten thousand pounds Philaurus cries
Last Line:
And void of that a monarch's wealth is poor
Author:
Elizabeth Carter (Absolute)
DMI number:
24411

45. Good morning to the day and next my gold

First Line:
Good morning to the day and next my gold
Last Line:
He shall be noble valiant honest wise
Author:
Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:
20042

46. Good name in man and woman dear my lord

First Line:
Good name in man and woman dear my lord
Last Line:
And makes me poor indeed
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
37401

47. Hence 'tis no lover has the power

First Line:
Hence 'tis no lover has the power
Last Line:
And hangs and drowns with half the trouble
Author:
Samuel Butler (Absolute)
DMI number:
5959

48. He's a good debtor that pays when tis due

First Line:
He's a good debtor that pays when tis due
Last Line:
Makes tender of it
Author:
Philip Massinger (Absolute)
DMI number:
14442

49. He covets less

First Line:
He covets less
Last Line:
To spend his time to end it
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
14852

50. He has not felt | The weight of need that want is virtue's clog

First Line:
He has not felt | The weight of need that want is virtue's clog
Author:
Thomas Randolph (Absolute)
DMI number:
17330