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1. A franklin was the sergeant's chief delight

First Line:
A franklin was the sergeant's chief delight
Last Line:
Renowned for courtesy by all beloved
Author:
Thomas Betterton (Absolute)
DMI number:
18342

2. A hare you in season presented to us

First Line:
A hare you in season presented to us
Last Line:
For the sauce and the supper will suit to a hair
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
26932

3. A landlord at Bath put upon me a queer hum

First Line:
A landlord at Bath put upon me a queer hum
Last Line:
I asked him for punch and the dog gave me mere rum
DMI number:
26608

4. A landlord of Bath put upon me a queer hum

First Line:
A landlord of Bath put upon me a queer hum
Last Line:
I asked him for punch and the dog gave me mere rum
DMI number:
32356

5. All the worst cider Hereford can make

First Line:
All the worst cider Hereford can make
Last Line:
For fear of drinking cider once your own
DMI number:
27696

6. As late of flowrets fresh and fair

First Line:
As late of flowrets fresh and fair
Last Line:
Strange titillations to my heart
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27355

7. As on a purple bed supine

First Line:
As on a purple bed supine
Last Line:
Again you soft illusions rise
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27179

8. As over the mountains over the plains

First Line:
As over the mountains over the plains
Last Line:
The sweetest madness wine and love
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27186

9. As common fare when sausages and chine

First Line:
As common fare when sausages and chine
Last Line:
I like a dinner such as I can give
DMI number:
28012

10. Artist of unrivalled skill

First Line:
Artist of unrivalled skill
Last Line:
Chloe smile upon the bowl
Author:
Edward Burnaby Greene (Speculation)
DMI number:
31424

11. At Bristol Tom from the mayor's feast was led

First Line:
At Bristol Tom from the mayor's feast was led
Last Line:
How safe are you who drunk but Bristol water
DMI number:
27980

12. Atis half woman poets say

First Line:
Atis half woman poets say
Last Line:
Thus blessed I will I will be mad
DMI number:
23007

13. As yesterday intent on love

First Line:
As yesterday intent on love
Last Line:
But skips and flutters round my heart
DMI number:
19130

14. Bacchus Jove's delightful boy

First Line:
Bacchus Jove's delightful boy
Last Line:
Thus I dance the hours away
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27203

15. Bacchus whither hurriest thou me

First Line:
Bacchus whither hurriest thou me
Last Line:
Thou with a garland crownest thy poet's brow
Author:
Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:
42124

16. Be charmed my friend by neither love nor wine

First Line:
Be charmed my friend by neither love nor wine
Last Line:
Beyond these bounds they will destructive prove
Author:
John Morrice (Absolute)
DMI number:
13789

17. Boy take away my gown I hate those shows

First Line:
Boy take away my gown I hate those shows
Last Line:
About with it while a catch we sing
DMI number:
42073

18. Boy while here I sit supine

First Line:
Boy while here I sit supine
Last Line:
The joys of wine the sweets of love
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27412

19. By these stale arts a dinner you pursue

First Line:
By these stale arts a dinner you pursue
Last Line:
To dine today do so but then no news
DMI number:
27639

20. By a Ravenna vintner once betrayed

First Line:
By a Ravenna vintner once betrayed
Last Line:
The rascal fobbed me off with only wine
DMI number:
12362

21. Bring hither boy a mighty bowl

First Line:
Bring hither boy a mighty bowl
Last Line:
Mix temperance in the friendly bowl
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27353

22. Bring me nymphs the laughing bowl

First Line:
Bring me nymphs the laughing bowl
Last Line:
Ever can force the heat of love
Author:
Edward Burnaby Greene (Speculation) & Anacreon (Absolute)
DMI number:
31428

23. Come philosophers come you that boast in your learning

First Line:
Come philosophers come you that boast in your learning
Last Line:
Whilst all speak in praise of the humorous rake | Your learning is little and little your knowledge | Come tope it about you old sots of the college
DMI number:
8921

24. Chloe you write to me for coin

First Line:
Chloe you write to me for coin
Last Line:
Enjoyed god Bacchus and became a star
Author:
Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:
6756

25. Come Martin explain me this riddle

First Line:
Come Martin explain me this riddle
Last Line:
And toast Chloe in bumpers of wine
DMI number:
26846

26. Come master of the Cyclop trade

First Line:
Come master of the Cyclop trade
Last Line:
My sparkling wine and loving lass
DMI number:
21495

27. Come companions come away

First Line:
Come companions come away
Last Line:
But in those of Egypt's queen
DMI number:
10020

28. Come fill it up and fill it high

First Line:
Come fill it up and fill it high
Last Line:
And be throughout like those above
DMI number:
4834

29. Dear friend I fear my heart will break

First Line:
Dear friend I fear my heart will break
Last Line:
By heaven I would not live an hour
Author:
Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:
6309

30. Contrive me artisan a bowl

First Line:
Contrive me artisan a bowl
Last Line:
But no Apollo God of day
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27194

31. Could heaps of wealth prolong our fate

First Line:
Could heaps of wealth prolong our fate
Last Line:
We that best know how to live
DMI number:
3453

32. Earth when parched and thirsty grown

First Line:
Earth when parched and thirsty grown
Last Line:
Tis no merit to be sober
DMI number:
37898

33. Easop relates a tale weil worth renown

First Line:
Easop relates a tale weil worth renown
Last Line:
Blythness of hairt in peace with small possesion
Author:
Robert Henryson (Absolute)
DMI number:
10873

34. Eating a mitey cheese elate with pride

First Line:
Eating a mitey cheese elate with pride
Last Line:
And the same weapon served both him and you
DMI number:
33613

35. Drink says old Sophist and then fear no evil

First Line:
Drink says old Sophist and then fear no evil
Last Line:
And so keep wetting wheresoever we go
DMI number:
36507

36. Fill fill sweet girls the foaming bowl

First Line:
Fill fill sweet girls the foaming bowl
Last Line:
Love is the fever of the mind
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27197

37. Fill the bowl with rosy wine

First Line:
Fill the bowl with rosy wine
Last Line:
To the gods belongs tomorrow
Author:
Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:
6014

38. Fill up the bowl with rosy wine

First Line:
Fill up the bowl with rosy wine
Last Line:
And leave to whom belongs tomorrow
DMI number:
44147

39. Flushed with the joys of love and wine

First Line:
Flushed with the joys of love and wine
Last Line:
May I with scenes like these be blessed
Author:
Edward Burnaby Greene (Speculation)
DMI number:
31415

40. Give me great monarch pounds five-score

First Line:
Give me great monarch pounds five-score
Last Line:
For some folks read but all must eat
DMI number:
15777

41. Give me Homer's godlike lyre

First Line:
Give me Homer's godlike lyre
Last Line:
Rapture calls and I inspire
Author:
Edward Burnaby Greene (Speculation)
DMI number:
31454

42. Give me Homer's tuneful lyre

First Line:
Give me Homer's tuneful lyre
Last Line:
Defiance to sobriety
Author:
Francis Willis (Absolute)
DMI number:
39261

43. Fruitless my friend you wreck your brain

First Line:
Fruitless my friend you wreck your brain
Last Line:
Then who so blessed as thee and I
DMI number:
10077

44. Hail bard triumphant whose melodious breath

First Line:
Hail bard triumphant whose melodious breath
Last Line:
It has killed a poet in whose verse it lives
DMI number:
42558

45. Hail gentle cask whose venerable head

First Line:
Hail gentle cask whose venerable head
Last Line:
Your beams shall yield to none but his who brings the day
Author:
Nicholas Rowe (Absolute)
DMI number:
3829

46. Happy art enlarge my soul

First Line:
Happy art enlarge my soul
Last Line:
Phoebus too thy presence deign
Author:
Edward Burnaby Greene (Speculation)
DMI number:
31425

47. Happy is he that free from mental toil

First Line:
Happy is he that free from mental toil
Last Line:
But at Our Lady puts them out again
Author:
Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:
42150

48. Great Bacchus born in thunder and in fire

First Line:
Great Bacchus born in thunder and in fire
Last Line:
The moral says mix water with your wine
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
12421

49. Her slaughtered babes while Niob' mourns

First Line:
Her slaughtered babes while Niob' mourns
Last Line:
My idol's very feet to kiss
Author:
Edward Burnaby Greene (Speculation)
DMI number:
31427

50. Here artist all thy skill impart

First Line:
Here artist all thy skill impart
Last Line:
Our wine his western ocean
Author:
Francis Willis (Absolute)
DMI number:
42590

51. Here boy let glasses quick be brought

First Line:
Here boy let glasses quick be brought
Last Line:
Nor would be soaked too soon nor late
DMI number:
39270

52. How did you fare at wealthy Rufus' feast

First Line:
How did you fare at wealthy Rufus' feast
Last Line:
Had tainted every dish and poisoned every bowl
DMI number:
25730

53. How doubly sweet is Baville's air

First Line:
How doubly sweet is Baville's air
Last Line:
Nay what is worse a Jansenist
DMI number:
8980

54. How liked my friend Orlides feast

First Line:
How liked my friend Orlides feast
Last Line:
All night with play and dance the revel keep
DMI number:
12543

55. How liked ye wealthy Nasidenus' feast

First Line:
How liked ye wealthy Nasidenus' feast
Last Line:
Than if a witch had shook her kercher over
Author:
Joseph Washington (Speculation)
DMI number:
42187

56. How great a virtue tis and how it tends

First Line:
How great a virtue tis and how it tends
Last Line:
And in all troubles quit your selves like men
Author:
Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:
42180

57. I drink a pint a gallon you for shame

First Line:
I drink a pint a gallon you for shame
Last Line:
Can you complain the wine is not the same
DMI number:
28003

58. I first of Romans stooped to rural strains

First Line:
I first of Romans stooped to rural strains
Last Line:
And to prevailing shades the murmuring world resigned
Author:
Wentworth Dillon (Absolute)
DMI number:
3787

59. In time to come if such a crime should be

First Line:
In time to come if such a crime should be
Last Line:
She'll never kiss you I dare swear
Author:
Thomas Flatman (Absolute)
DMI number:
42152

60. In transport borne away these eyes

First Line:
In transport borne away these eyes
Last Line:
And wagged his tail as Bacchus passed along
Author:
William Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:
25544

61. In a blind corner jolly Bacchus taught

First Line:
In a blind corner jolly Bacchus taught
Last Line:
And like a puppy wagged his tail
Author:
Thomas Flatman (Absolute)
DMI number:
42095

62. In leathern jack to drink much less I hate

First Line:
In leathern jack to drink much less I hate
Last Line:
Should correspond no better with the wine
DMI number:
27506

63. In midnight cups you grant all we propose

First Line:
In midnight cups you grant all we propose
Last Line:
Next morn neglect pray take a morning doze
DMI number:
27991

64. It fell about the month of June

First Line:
It fell about the month of June
Last Line:
When the sober folk lay dying
Author:
Sir Robert Murray Keith (Absolute)
DMI number:
35297

65. Jack buys an ancient cottage dismal foul

First Line:
Jack buys an ancient cottage dismal foul
Last Line:
Jack will not lodge so well as he will eat
DMI number:
27963

66. Indulge me stoics with the bowl

First Line:
Indulge me stoics with the bowl
Last Line:
Heroically mad with wine
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27291

67. Ingenious L-- were a picture drawn

First Line:
Ingenious L-- were a picture drawn
Last Line:
And never part till satisfied with blood
Author:
William King (Absolute)
DMI number:
7413

68. Lo the vintage now is done

First Line:
Lo the vintage now is done
Last Line:
The happy happy impudence
Author:
William Broome (Absolute)
DMI number:
27342

69. Let the sparkling bowl go round

First Line:
Let the sparkling bowl go round
Last Line:
And the praise of Bacchus sound
Author:
Edward Burnaby Greene (Speculation)
DMI number:
31447

70. Let's drink let's sing but with design

First Line:
Let's drink let's sing but with design
Last Line:
But praise the best the greatest god
Author:
Thomas Wood (Absolute)
DMI number:
42610

71. Let's drink let's sing but with design

First Line:
Let's drink let's sing but with design
Last Line:
The god of song of dance of wine
Author:
Thomas Wood (Absolute)
DMI number:
39256

72. Much drinking eating much and much ill speaking I

First Line:
Much drinking eating much and much ill speaking I
Last Line:
Of many here beneath this stone Rhodian Tymocreon lie
DMI number:
29929

73. My vault exults a cask to hold

First Line:
My vault exults a cask to hold
Last Line:
The troubled breast and lull our woes
DMI number:
26653

74. Mulciber this silver take

First Line:
Mulciber this silver take
Last Line:
Hand in hand to tread the wine
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
27193

75. My dear comrade and chiefest friend

First Line:
My dear comrade and chiefest friend
Last Line:
Transported when I treat my friend
Author:
Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:
42080

76. I pray sir with me to my chamber go

First Line:
I pray sir with me to my chamber go
Last Line:
Come go and we'll be merry
DMI number:
42050

77. I'll warrant now you think you're mighty wise

First Line:
I'll warrant now you think you're mighty wise
Last Line:
And she has given you all the world beside
DMI number:
11864

78. I would not always the same odours prove

First Line:
I would not always the same odours prove
Last Line:
But for the sweet vicissitude of night
DMI number:
10311

79. If Bellvill can his generous soul confine

First Line:
If Bellvill can his generous soul confine
Last Line:
A stratagem in war is no deceit | I am sir yours &c
Author:
William King (Absolute)
DMI number:
7412

80. If thou a guest on a joined-stool canst sup

First Line:
If thou a guest on a joined-stool canst sup
Last Line:
Thy clients bobbed out at the back door glide
Author:
Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:
42193

81. If I by chance a pullet have with egg

First Line:
If I by chance a pullet have with egg
Last Line:
In Covent garden more than Chelsea ground
DMI number:
27493

82. If noble Atticus make plenteous feasts

First Line:
If noble Atticus make plenteous feasts
Last Line:
Pleasure's a toil when constantly pursued
Author:
William Congreve (Absolute)
DMI number:
7245

83. If hardened by affronts and still the same

First Line:
If hardened by affronts and still the same
Last Line:
Worthy of such a treat and such a friend
DMI number:
7239

84. If you can loll on antique beds and eat

First Line:
If you can loll on antique beds and eat
Last Line:
Slip from your client through the garden gate
Author:
John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:
25746

85. If you can sit on an old three legged chair

First Line:
If you can sit on an old three legged chair
Last Line:
Whip out at the back door and bite em all
DMI number:
21581

86. If you dear sir will deign to pass a day

First Line:
If you dear sir will deign to pass a day
Last Line:
While you steal secret through the garden gate
Author:
Francis Fawkes (Absolute)
DMI number:
26681

87. Keep still an equal mind not sunk

First Line:
Keep still an equal mind not sunk
Last Line:
To eternal banishment
Author:
Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:
42076

88. Kind brother butt as old and brisk as I

First Line:
Kind brother butt as old and brisk as I
Last Line:
Till Phoebus puts the stars to flight
Author:
Thomas Flatman (Absolute)
DMI number:
42120

89. Learned Maecenas wonder not that I

First Line:
Learned Maecenas wonder not that I
Last Line:
For why shouldst thou look sour
Author:
Thomas Flatman (Absolute)
DMI number:
42105

90. Learned Mecaenas if you'll credit give

First Line:
Learned Mecaenas if you'll credit give
Last Line:
And deadly feuds destructive wars do breed
Author:
Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:
42209

91. Let me exhort you who my neighbour are

First Line:
Let me exhort you who my neighbour are
Last Line:
That batchelors drink claret and you port
DMI number:
27460

92. Let others in exalted lays

First Line:
Let others in exalted lays
Last Line:
Tomorrow we shall cross the main
Author:
William of Bangour Hamilton (Absolute)
DMI number:
25933

93. Let proud Gyges what care I

First Line:
Let proud Gyges what care I
Last Line:
Mortals quaff the foaming store
Author:
Edward Burnaby Greene (Speculation)
DMI number:
31422

94. Let rugged Thracians savage souls

First Line:
Let rugged Thracians savage souls
Last Line:
And set thee safe at liberty
DMI number:
10287

95. Me as a friend to supper you invite

First Line:
Me as a friend to supper you invite
Last Line:
If we must eat pray let us eat together
DMI number:
27373

96. Madness vengeful Rhea proved

First Line:
Madness vengeful Rhea proved
Last Line:
Boundless joys of love and wine
Author:
Edward Burnaby Greene (Speculation)
DMI number:
31420

97. Maecenas still content to shine

First Line:
Maecenas still content to shine
Last Line:
Or from the Formian or Falernian vines
Author:
John Duncombe (Absolute)
DMI number:
25434

98. Make me a bowl a mighty bowl

First Line:
Make me a bowl a mighty bowl
Last Line:
The gods thus drunk in effigy
Author:
John Oldham (Absolute)
DMI number:
36114

99. Nor this sufficed the god's disgust remains

First Line:
Nor this sufficed the god's disgust remains
Last Line:
To tell the important secret both combined
Author:
Samuel Croxall (Confident)
DMI number:
11903

100. Naked the spring would seem and bare

First Line:
Naked the spring would seem and bare
Last Line:
Did itself to Bacchus dedicate
Author:
Thomas Wood (Absolute)
DMI number:
39266