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461. We need not noble gentlemen to invite

First Line:
We need not noble gentlemen to invite
Last Line:
To grace the scene pleased and contented home
Author:
John Fletcher (Absolute)
DMI number:
38732

462. We to this place where once we came of old

First Line:
We to this place where once we came of old
Last Line:
And give for sterling money sterling wit
DMI number:
17566

463. We write not now as the ancient poets writ

First Line:
We write not now as the ancient poets writ
Last Line:
He that writes wit is much the greater fool
Author:
Aphra Behn (Absolute)
DMI number:
38797

464. Wake wake Quevira our soft rest must cease

First Line:
Wake wake Quevira our soft rest must cease
Last Line:
And we shall judge both best by our success
Author:
Sir Robert Howard (Absolute) & John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
35750

465. Various the shifts of authors nowadays

First Line:
Various the shifts of authors nowadays
Last Line:
For undeserved it shames both him and you
Author:
Richard Cumberland (Absolute)
DMI number:
33952

466. We might well call this short mock-play of ours

First Line:
We might well call this short mock-play of ours
Last Line:
Tis I John Lacy have reformed your stage
Author:
George Villiers (Absolute) & Thomas Sprat (Speculation) & Samuel Butler (Speculation) & Martin Clifford (Speculation)
DMI number:
17529

467. War is no more those thunders cease to roll

First Line:
War is no more those thunders cease to roll
Last Line:
His fears are from himself and not from you
Author:
David Mallet (Absolute)
DMI number:
31725

468. We've entertained the Italian strollers here

First Line:
We've entertained the Italian strollers here
Last Line:
And air and echo reign where Maro sung
DMI number:
10838

469. Upwards of twenty years are fled and wasted

First Line:
Upwards of twenty years are fled and wasted
Last Line:
Unless I gain this circle for my jury
Author:
Samuel Foote (Absolute)
DMI number:
39018

470. What Nostradame with all his art can guess

First Line:
What Nostradame with all his art can guess
Last Line:
Under a female regency may rise
Author:
John Dryden (Confident)
DMI number:
6118