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1. A curse upon the faithless maid

First Line:: A curse upon the faithless maid
Last Line:: To deal with greater liberty her heart
DMI number:: 44407

2. A thousand martyrs I have made

First Line:: A thousand martyrs I have made
Last Line:: Despise the fools that whine for love
DMI number:: 43588

3. Ah Phillis had you never loved

First Line:: Ah Phillis had you never loved
Last Line:: Did to rough storms give way
DMI number:: 42273

4. Alas why made thou such a vow

First Line:: Alas why made thou such a vow
Last Line:: The tempter most accursed
DMI number:: 43462

5. All things finished now and ended

First Line:: All things finished now and ended
Last Line:: There's gall in the heart deceit in the deed
DMI number:: 42011

6. Arise ye winds from your rough caves

First Line:: Arise ye winds from your rough caves
Last Line:: And then she laid her down and died
DMI number:: 42801

7. Ask me no more my Quintius whether I

First Line:: Ask me no more my Quintius whether I
Last Line:: First death is the last scene of misery
Author:: Robert Thompson (Confident)
DMI number:: 42206

8. Begone begone thou wheedling cheat

First Line:: Begone begone thou wheedling cheat
Last Line:: To a view melodious worlds on high
DMI number:: 43382

9. Behold that race whence England's woes proceed

First Line:: Behold that race whence England's woes proceed
Last Line:: The villain's refuge and the womens lust
DMI number:: 42629

10. Bright Cynthia scorns

First Line:: Bright Cynthia scorns
Last Line:: Was always a friend to the night
DMI number:: 42466

11. Blue Thetis goddess of the raging sea

First Line:: Blue Thetis goddess of the raging sea
Last Line:: That he or death must give me rest
DMI number:: 42720

12. Beneath a spreading willow's shade

First Line:: Beneath a spreading willow's shade
Last Line:: And be like me unkindly used
DMI number:: 42232

13. Bring me a man with animating strokes

First Line:: Bring me a man with animating strokes
Last Line:: These worst of times and time itself survive
DMI number:: 43061

14. Celinda who did love disdain

First Line:: Celinda who did love disdain
Last Line:: For in her eyes she reads her fate
DMI number:: 43700

15. Celio remains disconsolate

First Line:: Celio remains disconsolate
Last Line:: Phillis the falsest of her sex
DMI number:: 44452

16. Comus nor Momus now must be my theme

First Line:: Comus nor Momus now must be my theme
Last Line:: The doctor holed with the badger at his back
Author:: John Dean (Absolute)
DMI number:: 43055

17. Cupid begone who would on thee rely

First Line:: Cupid begone who would on thee rely
Last Line:: I fear how dear thou hast thy knowledge bought
Author:: Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 41866

18. Ephelia while her flocks were fair

First Line:: Ephelia while her flocks were fair
Last Line:: That she did lately scorn
DMI number:: 42258

19. Each lover thinks the object of his flame

First Line:: Each lover thinks the object of his flame
Last Line:: She's perfect hag to fright you from her arms
DMI number:: 44379

20. Deem as thee list upon good cause

First Line:: Deem as thee list upon good cause
Last Line:: I would I thought it were not
DMI number:: 49137

21. False flattering men who make it your chief pride

First Line:: False flattering men who make it your chief pride
Last Line:: That now you scoff at and dare glory in
DMI number:: 42760

22. Farewell ungrateful traitor

First Line:: Farewell ungrateful traitor
Last Line:: When living is a pain | But dying &c
Author:: John Dryden (Confident)
DMI number:: 42278

23. Faustus if thou wilt read from me

First Line:: Faustus if thou wilt read from me
Last Line:: Thy deed thou do repent
Author:: Bartholomew Yong (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44896

24. Evadne I must let you know

First Line:: Evadne I must let you know
Last Line:: To wait eternally
DMI number:: 43575

25. Evadne I must tell you so

First Line:: Evadne I must tell you so
Last Line:: To wait eternally
DMI number:: 43574

26. Even he that whilom was thy faithful friend most just

First Line:: Even he that whilom was thy faithful friend most just
Last Line:: A better hap and that he may a truer mistress find
DMI number:: 49127

27. Fair is your face an oily tongue you have

First Line:: Fair is your face an oily tongue you have
Last Line:: Who carry sure destruction in your smiles
DMI number:: 44395

28. From a field fought one from the beaten side

First Line:: From a field fought one from the beaten side
Last Line:: But if the king liked it the liar sped well
Author:: John Heywood (Absolute)
DMI number:: 41935

29. Gone with a vengeance had he twenty lives

First Line:: Gone with a vengeance had he twenty lives
Last Line:: The wrath of heaven and the prey of hell
DMI number:: 43357

30. Great prince what glories does thy name deserve

First Line:: Great prince what glories does thy name deserve
Last Line:: And think it great enough in thee to have a share
DMI number:: 42861

31. Hail mighty monarch by whose aid

First Line:: Hail mighty monarch by whose aid
Last Line:: I other business have
DMI number:: 43011

32. Great Charles who full of mercy wouldst command

First Line:: Great Charles who full of mercy wouldst command
Last Line:: Till the stroke's struck which they can never retrieve
Author:: John Wilmot (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3634

33. How far are they deceived that hope in vain

First Line:: How far are they deceived that hope in vain
Last Line:: Before your pity I would choose your hate
Author:: Sir George Etherege (Absolute) & John Wilmot (Speculation)
DMI number:: 18385

34. How mortal hate for what offence

First Line:: How mortal hate for what offence
Last Line:: Not but I'd die to shew how much I love
DMI number:: 42618

35. I can allow such charms inconstancy

First Line:: I can allow such charms inconstancy
Last Line:: Or by the favour of thy judge succeed
Author:: Nahum Tate (Absolute)
DMI number:: 41870

36. I am a cunning constable

First Line:: I am a cunning constable
Last Line:: Missing the man I'll press the wife
DMI number:: 43318

37. I groan and languish to relate

First Line:: I groan and languish to relate
Last Line:: Popish and factious and let all men say | Amen
DMI number:: 43009

38. I do not ask you would to me prove true

First Line:: I do not ask you would to me prove true
Last Line:: I'll trust the oath and think my eyes in fault
DMI number:: 6794

39. It was a lovely melancholy night

First Line:: It was a lovely melancholy night
Last Line:: And then twill be my turn to laugh
Author:: Thomas Flatman (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42164

40. Insult not too much on thy fading success

First Line:: Insult not too much on thy fading success
Last Line:: Poor lovers tormented and tossed on the sea
DMI number:: 42546

41. Jove governs heaven with his nod

First Line:: Jove governs heaven with his nod
Last Line:: And give his mind some relaxation
Author:: Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42102

42. It is not the silver or gold of its self

First Line:: It is not the silver or gold of its self
Last Line:: This makes you as merry as we that do sing
DMI number:: 43296

43. Long have I wished to know what tis to love

First Line:: Long have I wished to know what tis to love
Last Line:: Great Mars calms all my breast and shields it from thy sting
DMI number:: 44416

44. Muses help me sorrow swarmeth

First Line:: Muses help me sorrow swarmeth
Last Line:: How neglect my joys have daunted
Author:: Thomas Lodge (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44720

45. My love what misliking in me do you find

First Line:: My love what misliking in me do you find
Last Line:: Sing all of green willow shall be my Garland
DMI number:: 49194

46. My Lesbia swears she would Catullus wed

First Line:: My Lesbia swears she would Catullus wed
Last Line:: And should be writ in air or running streams
DMI number:: 3925

47. I never was inclined to range

First Line:: I never was inclined to range
Last Line:: If Sylvia they were meant of you
DMI number:: 42734

48. If ever any injured power

First Line:: If ever any injured power
Last Line:: The expected husband from her arms
Author:: Richard Duke (Absolute)
DMI number:: 909

49. If any punishment did follow

First Line:: If any punishment did follow
Last Line:: Their lords away
Author:: Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42082

50. If only sight suffice my heart to loose or bind

First Line:: If only sight suffice my heart to loose or bind
Last Line:: None else shall know her name for me to conster my desire
DMI number:: 49152

51. If you repent can I forgive your crime

First Line:: If you repent can I forgive your crime
Last Line:: Look kind on me and not on her at all
DMI number:: 42237

52. Kind are my stars indeed but that so late

First Line:: Kind are my stars indeed but that so late
Last Line:: But yet at your command shall always be
DMI number:: 43660

53. Laden they say with Jason's golden prize

First Line:: Laden they say with Jason's golden prize
Last Line:: An execrable pair in a detested bed
Author:: Elkanah Settle (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5723

54. Ladies I hope there's none behind to hear

First Line:: Ladies I hope there's none behind to hear
Last Line:: To trump their diamonds and they trump our hearts
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4033

55. Ladies I hope there's none behind to hear

First Line:: Ladies I hope there's none behind to hear
Last Line:: To trump their diamonds as they trump our hearts
DMI number:: 17903

56. Make haste make haste my miserable soul

First Line:: Make haste make haste my miserable soul
Last Line:: And then my tortured soul assume thy flight
DMI number:: 43655

57. Madam if you're deceived it is not by my cheat

First Line:: Madam if you're deceived it is not by my cheat
Last Line:: Disturbed by swords like Damocles his feast
Author:: John Wilmot (Confident)
DMI number:: 42298

58. Miraculous what love me one whole day

First Line:: Miraculous what love me one whole day
Last Line:: Practise thy worst of change I'll alter too
DMI number:: 42681

59. Melpomene the muse of tragic songs

First Line:: Melpomene the muse of tragic songs
Last Line:: False Paris hath to his Oenone been
Author:: George Peele (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44933

60. No - never think him truly rich or great

First Line:: No - never think him truly rich or great
Last Line:: And learn thou to be happy from thy self alone
DMI number:: 43388

61. Not hear my message but the bearer shun

First Line:: Not hear my message but the bearer shun
Last Line:: And I fall downward from this rowling sky
DMI number:: 43527

62. Now fie on love it ill befits

First Line:: Now fie on love it ill befits
Last Line:: To marrie is to make it ten times worse
DMI number:: 44455

63. Now I'm resolved to love no more

First Line:: Now I'm resolved to love no more
Last Line:: For you are coy but wine is free
DMI number:: 44408

64. O cruel heart with falsehood infect of force I must complain

First Line:: O cruel heart with falsehood infect of force I must complain
Last Line:: Whose often change I may well like two months within the
DMI number:: 49164

65. No more proud woman boast

First Line:: No more proud woman boast
Last Line:: Who better knows to please
DMI number:: 42620

66. Oh wretched wight whom henceforth may I trust

First Line:: Oh wretched wight whom henceforth may I trust
Last Line:: No wight had died in half so happy case
DMI number:: 49158

67. Oh how soft it is to see

First Line:: Oh how soft it is to see
Last Line:: To the maid just reconciled
DMI number:: 43605

68. Oh love thou art a treasure

First Line:: Oh love thou art a treasure
Last Line:: The vows of men are vain
DMI number:: 42772

69. Pass forth in doleful dumps my verse

First Line:: Pass forth in doleful dumps my verse
Last Line:: Or else in ruthful plight I die
DMI number:: 49138

70. One moon-shiny night as I walked out late

First Line:: One moon-shiny night as I walked out late
Last Line:: But take my advice for I speak as I find
DMI number:: 42803

71. Poor Lycidus for shame arise

First Line:: Poor Lycidus for shame arise
Last Line:: While thou the cully art
DMI number:: 43589

72. Phillis accept a stubborn heart

First Line:: Phillis accept a stubborn heart
Last Line:: Will false for ever be
DMI number:: 42293

73. Phillis though your powerful charms

First Line:: Phillis though your powerful charms
Last Line:: What slave so dull as to obey
DMI number:: 44288

74. Read boldly this here you shall swear no more

First Line:: Read boldly this here you shall swear no more
Last Line:: Although for me too little yet too much for thee
Author:: Richard Duke (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5744

75. Scaeva thou art wise enough to tell

First Line:: Scaeva thou art wise enough to tell
Last Line:: Get help you rascal where you are not known
DMI number:: 42207

76. Since that thou didest me love

First Line:: Since that thou didest me love
Last Line:: Whose treason once did me purchase thy due disdain
DMI number:: 49149

77. Since thou unjust hast caught a lust

First Line:: Since thou unjust hast caught a lust
Last Line:: And thus I let thee go
DMI number:: 49153

78. Sir when I first saw your bewitching face

First Line:: Sir when I first saw your bewitching face
Last Line:: And for your sake slight all of mortal race
DMI number:: 42754

79. The heat is past that did me fret

First Line:: The heat is past that did me fret
Last Line:: Then serve and sue and all in vain
Author:: Thomas Churchyard (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49162

80. The plot being thus subtly contrived as you hear

First Line:: The plot being thus subtly contrived as you hear
Last Line:: So prosper all traitors and God save the king | The truth of my story if any one doubt | We have witnesses ready to swear it all out
DMI number:: 43152

81. The sullen night worn threadbare when I lay

First Line:: The sullen night worn threadbare when I lay
Last Line:: So we at last shall bruise the serpents head
DMI number:: 44319

82. Thus will I pluck his feathers till he's bare

First Line:: Thus will I pluck his feathers till he's bare
Last Line:: Then bully rock shall kick him out of the door
DMI number:: 44360

83. Tis true Clarinda once I did resign

First Line:: Tis true Clarinda once I did resign
Last Line:: Her poetry alone can dub a saint
DMI number:: 43551

84. Unhappy state to thee poor man does owe

First Line:: Unhappy state to thee poor man does owe
Last Line:: For every woman is an Eve to man
DMI number:: 42634

85. Unconstant that word strikes me more

First Line:: Unconstant that word strikes me more
Last Line:: And never enjoy this day
DMI number:: 43379

86. Unconstant that word strikes me more

First Line:: Unconstant that word strikes me more
Last Line:: But to please all mankind
DMI number:: 44411

87. Well by experience now I see

First Line:: Well by experience now I see
Last Line:: But that he was unkind
DMI number:: 43464

88. Victorious beauty though your eyes

First Line:: Victorious beauty though your eyes
Last Line:: Do not a single heart despise
Author:: Aurelian Townshend (Absolute)
DMI number:: 43840

89. What shall a glorious nation be overthrown

First Line:: What shall a glorious nation be overthrown
Last Line:: And suck all the sweetness of the land
DMI number:: 43080

90. What stripling now thee discomposes

First Line:: What stripling now thee discomposes
Last Line:: Of seas great admiral
Author:: Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42034

91. When Celia I intend to flatter you

First Line:: When Celia I intend to flatter you
Last Line:: They might be had with ease
DMI number:: 44005

92. When the plot I first invented

First Line:: When the plot I first invented
Last Line:: Then take thy own associate devil
DMI number:: 43054

93. When to the charming Bellinda I came

First Line:: When to the charming Bellinda I came
Last Line:: Made myself even believe what I swore was all truth
DMI number:: 43599

94. Why should that faithless wanton give

First Line:: Why should that faithless wanton give
Last Line:: To faithless Silvia fame
DMI number:: 43592

95. Women the wo of men cause of mans fall

First Line:: Women the wo of men cause of mans fall
Last Line:: I speak for day let them that know for night
DMI number:: 43303

96. Would god I had never seen

First Line:: Would god I had never seen
Last Line:: It was mine own poor lot
DMI number:: 49135

97. You say you love me nay can swear it too

First Line:: You say you love me nay can swear it too
Last Line:: I'll not believe you
DMI number:: 43998