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1. Dear wife let me have a fire made

First Line:
Dear wife let me have a fire made
Last Line:
For which we have justly deserved a rope | This it is to be learned and witty
DMI number:
4949

2. Dignified things may I your leave implore

First Line:
Dignified things may I your leave implore
Last Line:
You're downright rogues they only knaves and fools
DMI number:
4905

3. Dignified things may I your leaves implore

First Line:
Dignified things may I your leaves implore
Last Line:
You're downright rogues they only knaves and fools
DMI number:
42329

4. From the boat of old Charon in the Stygian ferry

First Line:
From the boat of old Charon in the Stygian ferry
Last Line:
You are pirate at sea as I pirate at land | Which nobody can deny
DMI number:
4986

5. Go set Scotch bagpipes to the briskest notes

First Line:
Go set Scotch bagpipes to the briskest notes
Last Line:
He's grown a wolf by this and worries lambs
DMI number:
43023

6. Gold rules within and reigns without these doors

First Line:
Gold rules within and reigns without these doors
Last Line:
He votes for interest and she yields for coin
Author:
Anthony Hammond (Confident)
DMI number:
10574

7. Good God what means this sudden alteration

First Line:
Good God what means this sudden alteration
Last Line:
For if he rise he'll gaol us all for treason
DMI number:
43063

8. Good people I pray now attend to my muse

First Line:
Good people I pray now attend to my muse
Last Line:
My muse she grows weary and thus she doth end | With pox o' chancellor villainous chancellor | Damnable chancellor oh
DMI number:
42346

9. Here lives the wolf justice a butcherly knave

First Line:
Here lives the wolf justice a butcherly knave
Last Line:
We'll die at our doors ere in Smithfield we'll burn
Author:
Stephen College (Confident)
DMI number:
4871

10. Here lives the wolf justice and butcherly knave

First Line:
Here lives the wolf justice and butcherly knave
Last Line:
We'll die at our doors ere in Smithfield we'll burn
Author:
Stephen College (Confident)
DMI number:
42318

11. How fleeting is honour who'd strive to be great

First Line:
How fleeting is honour who'd strive to be great
Last Line:
Then whip goes the seal and adieu my Lord K----r
DMI number:
5885

12. His holiness has three grand friends

First Line:
His holiness has three grand friends
Last Line:
It rules both church and state
Author:
Stephen College (Confident)
DMI number:
4872

13. I cannot hold hot struggling rage aspires

First Line:
I cannot hold hot struggling rage aspires
Last Line:
In a long long succession down to the day of doom
Author:
Thomas Thompson (Absolute)
DMI number:
5923

14. I am a senseless thing with a hey with a hey

First Line:
I am a senseless thing with a hey with a hey
Last Line:
For a martyr's place above | With a hey tronny nonny nonny no
Author:
Stephen College (Confident)
DMI number:
4737

15. It shall be known how Lackworth came so great

First Line:
It shall be known how Lackworth came so great
Last Line:
Into coined gold transmutes the name of ore
DMI number:
5021

16. I'm come my future fate to seek

First Line:
I'm come my future fate to seek
Last Line:
Live unbeloved and unlamented die
DMI number:
6487

17. I'd praise your lordship but you've had your share

First Line:
I'd praise your lordship but you've had your share
Last Line:
Else they'll say Essex was the stouter man
DMI number:
42341

18. If I wear out of date as I find I fall down

First Line:
If I wear out of date as I find I fall down
Last Line:
And blind the whole world with fopperies and lies
DMI number:
42366

19. Let noble Sir Positive lead the van

First Line:
Let noble Sir Positive lead the van
Last Line:
That the P-----rs live at the Rose and Crown | Which &c
Author:
George Savile (Speculation)
DMI number:
4957

20. Of a tall statue and of sable hue

First Line:
Of a tall statue and of sable hue
Last Line:
Then how much greater mischiefs such a king
DMI number:
42359