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1. Advancement now doth not attend desert

First Line:: Advancement now doth not attend desert
Last Line:: Whose virtue makes their vice more vile appear
Author:: William Alexander (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13365

2. As in fine fields weeds or fat earth abounds

First Line:: As in fine fields weeds or fat earth abounds
Last Line:: Great spirits must do great good or else great ill
Author:: William Alexander (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14967

3. Be in thy greatness easy as thy brow

First Line:: Be in thy greatness easy as thy brow
Last Line:: Who feel most wrong from those who them despise
Author:: Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14981

4. Be thou blest Bertram and succeed thy father

First Line:: Be thou blest Bertram and succeed thy father
Last Line:: But never taxed for speech
Author:: William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37428

5. Be wise

First Line:: Be wise
Last Line:: Soar not too high to fall but stoop to rise
Author:: Philip Massinger (Absolute)
DMI number:: 15181

6. Begin my lord in early youth

First Line:: Begin my lord in early youth
Last Line:: Their merits heighten your disgrace
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30410

7. But how men gain their power the gods do not

First Line:: But how men gain their power the gods do not
Last Line:: So much regard as how tis used when got
Author:: Roger Boyle (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17254

8. But never let the example of the bad

First Line:: But never let the example of the bad
Last Line:: What wonder then if one of women all did miss
Author:: Edmund Spenser (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14635

9. Convince the world that you're devout and true

First Line:: Convince the world that you're devout and true
Last Line:: A peer of the first magnitude to me
Author:: Juvenal (Absolute) & George Stepney (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30025

10. Count all the advantage prosperous vice attains

First Line:: Count all the advantage prosperous vice attains
Last Line:: Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33766