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1. A man with poverty oppressed

First Line:
A man with poverty oppressed
Last Line:
And plunged the wretch in endless woe
DMI number:
24978

2. A priest there was who with a silver sound

First Line:
A priest there was who with a silver sound
Last Line:
The sermon edifies the example spoils
DMI number:
22584

3. Come painter you and I you know dare do

First Line:
Come painter you and I you know dare do
Last Line:
Then Asaph's song shall be like Doeg's rhyme
DMI number:
41823

4. Freidom honour and nobillness

First Line:
Freidom honour and nobillness
Last Line:
Work for a place in paradyce | For thairin rings nae covetyce
Author:
William Dunbar (Absolute)
DMI number:
10934

5. Good lord what a pass is this world brought to

First Line:
Good lord what a pass is this world brought to
Last Line:
And first find a needle in a bottle of hay
DMI number:
42940

6. Hence satire's power tis her corrective part

First Line:
Hence satire's power tis her corrective part
Last Line:
And slaves and sycophants surround in vain
Author:
John Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:
30878

7. Long have I heard your favourite theme

First Line:
Long have I heard your favourite theme
Last Line:
Perhaps or send you to the Turk
Author:
Richard Owen Cambridge (Absolute)
DMI number:
30538

8. Lives there a man for no one merit famed

First Line:
Lives there a man for no one merit famed
Last Line:
For though there's one such man there can't be two
DMI number:
21884

9. Knaw ze not God omnipotent

First Line:
Knaw ze not God omnipotent
Last Line:
Suld be the meane to have belyve | Ane end of mes
Author:
John Wedderburn (Confident)
DMI number:
10957

10. Quhen doctors preicht to win the joy eternal

First Line:
Quhen doctors preicht to win the joy eternal
Last Line:
Against justice with uthir great offens
Author:
William Stewart (Speculation)
DMI number:
10875

11. Peace thou corrupter of mortality

First Line:
Peace thou corrupter of mortality
Last Line:
Virtue a beggar learning unrewarded
DMI number:
3901

12. Say Burke whose keen and cautious eye

First Line:
Say Burke whose keen and cautious eye
Last Line:
That baffles all translation
DMI number:
36014

13. See Proteus every shape and form put on

First Line:
See Proteus every shape and form put on
Last Line:
How like a devil would he stripped appear
DMI number:
19445

14. Stop mortal frail collect your thought

First Line:
Stop mortal frail collect your thought
Last Line:
Of comrades follies on our back
DMI number:
35353

15. Sons hes bene ay exylit far out of sicht

First Line:
Sons hes bene ay exylit far out of sicht
Last Line:
His nakit farmours gars hungry gae to bed
Author:
William Dunbar (Speculation)
DMI number:
10933

16. The paip that pagane full of pryde

First Line:
The paip that pagane full of pryde
Last Line:
And heisit thair hippis on hie | Hay trix tryme go trix under the grene wod-trie
Author:
John Wedderburn (Confident)
DMI number:
10956

17. The venturing merchant in his mighty gains

First Line:
The venturing merchant in his mighty gains
Last Line:
Worth unregarded and neglected lyes
DMI number:
42615

18. The time has been when plays were not so plenty

First Line:
The time has been when plays were not so plenty
Last Line:
Prepared by just decrees to stand or fall
Author:
William Congreve (Absolute)
DMI number:
17535

19. The wicked like small stars in number rise

First Line:
The wicked like small stars in number rise
Last Line:
But must on earth live injured and oppressed
Author:
Edward Ward (Speculation)
DMI number:
5404

20. Though Madam Money look both brisk and gay

First Line:
Though Madam Money look both brisk and gay
Last Line:
But that pecuniae obediunt omnia
DMI number:
43297