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1. A To town what cause or rather what ill star

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A To town what cause or rather what ill star
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A You're a good man and the in Lord must trust
DMI number:
27370

2. Blessed with the morals of a former age

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Blessed with the morals of a former age
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To lash the vices but the persons spare
DMI number:
27694

3. I am no genius you affirm and why

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I am no genius you affirm and why
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Yours like the dirty giants in Guildhall
DMI number:
27643

4. In all the epigrams you write we trace

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In all the epigrams you write we trace
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High seasoned like my dishes be my wit
DMI number:
27490

5. In epigram so happy is your strain

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In epigram so happy is your strain
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Few yield the glory of the field in wit
DMI number:
27511

6. My works the reader and the hearer praise

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My works the reader and the hearer praise
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Am I to please the cook or please the guest
DMI number:
27652

7. My epigrams are long in your conceit

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My epigrams are long in your conceit
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But long the very distichs which you make
DMI number:
27365

8. I understand to send me you design

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I understand to send me you design
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They may I cannot wait the muses' leisure
DMI number:
27500

9. Nothing I see your candour can exceed

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Nothing I see your candour can exceed
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Yet I should choose some verses of your making
DMI number:
27363

10. Often you ask solicitous as Bayes

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Often you ask solicitous as Bayes
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Critic as well as friend and God bless you
DMI number:
27428

11. Since never was an age so happy yet

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Since never was an age so happy yet
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No tis not Virgil I will be but Pope
DMI number:
27568

12. The ancients all your veneration have

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The ancients all your veneration have
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Can hardly think it worth my while to die
DMI number:
27572

13. The porter's joke the chairman's low conceit

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The porter's joke the chairman's low conceit
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Cannot I hold my tongue and die unknown
DMI number:
27668

14. The verses in this book too soon took air

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The verses in this book too soon took air
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The only monuments which cannot die
DMI number:
27667

15. What pleasure is it that your writings are

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What pleasure is it that your writings are
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Or with a comment or without it shine
DMI number:
27691

16. What in long verse write epigrams say you

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What in long verse write epigrams say you
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I may write long and you may read the short
DMI number:
27482

17. Whilst Milton's read or silver Thames shall run

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Whilst Milton's read or silver Thames shall run
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And tender Otway graced my native shore
DMI number:
27324

18. Who reads of Oedipus or Scylla now

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Who reads of Oedipus or Scylla now
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Proceed in your romance transported beau
DMI number:
27669

19. You ask me why I have no verses sent

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You ask me why I have no verses sent
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For fear you should return the compliment
DMI number:
27486

20. You come away flies every mother's son

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You come away flies every mother's son
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And by your verse we lose your probity
DMI number:
27371