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1. A fellow once when cash was scant

First Line:: A fellow once when cash was scant
Last Line:: And saw the raree show a louse
DMI number:: 25017

2. A certain brewer whose liquor of life

First Line:: A certain brewer whose liquor of life
Last Line:: That those who touch cash should have clean washen hands
DMI number:: 4412

3. A half famished wolf met a jolly fat dog

First Line:: A half famished wolf met a jolly fat dog
Last Line:: They that will have the fat must submit to the clog
DMI number:: 4417

4. A justice in a country town

First Line:: A justice in a country town
Last Line:: Choused of his goose and reason too
DMI number:: 10503

5. A man with poverty oppressed

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

6. A milk white rogue immortal and unhanged

First Line:: A milk white rogue immortal and unhanged
Last Line:: Come hanging oft or noble decollation
DMI number:: 4422

7. A statesman and a doctor

First Line:: A statesman and a doctor
Last Line:: He got a safe into hell
DMI number:: 31827

8. 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

9. A wealthy matron now grown old

First Line:: A wealthy matron now grown old
Last Line:: And physick thee of eighteen more
Author:: Thomas Yalden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4426

10. A lion worn with length of years

First Line:: A lion worn with length of years
Last Line:: Who neither flatters nor offends
DMI number:: 22061

11. About Zule quhen the wind blew cule

First Line:: About Zule quhen the wind blew cule
Last Line:: Zoung Waters he did dee
DMI number:: 37337

12. Albion disclose thy drowsy eyes and see

First Line:: Albion disclose thy drowsy eyes and see
Last Line:: That would produce at last such glorious days as these
DMI number:: 5912

13. A world that's full of fools and madmen

First Line:: A world that's full of fools and madmen
Last Line:: I cry for all their ills and laugh at all their follies
DMI number:: 5169

14. A wretch had committed all manner of evil

First Line:: A wretch had committed all manner of evil
Last Line:: But all yesterday I was drunk with October
DMI number:: 7681

15. All human satisfaction springs

First Line:: All human satisfaction springs
Last Line:: That all is outside all is show
DMI number:: 25020

16. All you who leap religion's sacred fence

First Line:: All you who leap religion's sacred fence
Last Line:: That God though injured is not deaf nor blind
DMI number:: 36217

17. All you who leap religion's sacred fence

First Line:: All you who leap religion's sacred fence
Last Line:: That the injured god is neither deaf nor blind
DMI number:: 4094

18. As mastiff dogs in modern phrase are

First Line:: As mastiff dogs in modern phrase are
Last Line:: Whether this be not a salamander
Author:: Jonathan Swift (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12153

19. As heroes states and kingdoms rise and fall

First Line:: As heroes states and kingdoms rise and fall
Last Line:: At least we're vanquished in a noble cause
Author:: David Garrick (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37513

20. At length with vengeance bursts my raging vein

First Line:: At length with vengeance bursts my raging vein
Last Line:: And lost in transport beg to wake no more
Author:: Nicholas Amhurst (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12000

21. As when the church's doctrines were arraigned

First Line:: As when the church's doctrines were arraigned
Last Line:: Not build your selves but others out of doors
DMI number:: 7683

22. B---- vexed with court the country sought

First Line:: B---- vexed with court the country sought
Last Line:: From ------ unhappy case
DMI number:: 19742

23. Backwards rode Filch who pockets used to rifle

First Line:: Backwards rode Filch who pockets used to rifle
Last Line:: They come not here who properly can touch
DMI number:: 20839

24. Barber was blessed with competent estate

First Line:: Barber was blessed with competent estate
Last Line:: All wicked wealth will wear as it was won
Author:: Matthew Pilkington (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18656

25. Both man and chylde is glad to here tell

First Line:: Both man and chylde is glad to here tell
Last Line:: With all hys lordes of great honoure
DMI number:: 37314

26. Brethren behold how kind and good

First Line:: Brethren behold how kind and good
Last Line:: Not venture and inherit
DMI number:: 7680

27. By bribes and threats so many Whigs at first

First Line:: By bribes and threats so many Whigs at first
Last Line:: Or to betray or else to countermine
DMI number:: 12569

28. But straight the direful pomp of slander sounds

First Line:: But straight the direful pomp of slander sounds
Last Line:: An easy entrance in ignoble minds
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30887

29. But such and only such who do disgrace

First Line:: But such and only such who do disgrace
Last Line:: When very shepherds dare debauch their sheep
DMI number:: 6934

30. Briton the thunder of the wrath divine

First Line:: Briton the thunder of the wrath divine
Last Line:: To spawn a baser brood of monster-breeding sons
Author:: Robert Lowth (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22540

31. 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

32. Clarendon had law and sense

First Line:: Clarendon had law and sense
Last Line:: With here and there a pawn
Author:: John Wilmot (Speculation) & John Dryden (Speculation) & Charles Sackville (Speculation)
DMI number:: 2182

33. Clo asked me one day to tell her a lie

First Line:: Clo asked me one day to tell her a lie
Last Line:: When falshood conspires her beauty to praise
DMI number:: 21992

34. Come all ye brave boys and high churchmen draw near

First Line:: Come all ye brave boys and high churchmen draw near
Last Line:: We know who'd enjoy axes halters and carts | Which nobody can deny
DMI number:: 13313

35. Curse on such representatives

First Line:: Curse on such representatives
Last Line:: By this old Whitehall pump
DMI number:: 4734

36. Curse on the authors of our present woes

First Line:: Curse on the authors of our present woes
Last Line:: Reduce their native country to a wretched state
Author:: Edward Ward (Speculation)
DMI number:: 5457

37. Cursed be those dull unpointed doggerel rhymes

First Line:: Cursed be those dull unpointed doggerel rhymes
Last Line:: As when old H-e was catched with rem in re
Author:: Charles Sackville (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5451

38. 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

39. Did power and liberty agree

First Line:: Did power and liberty agree
Last Line:: Been charged on me who gave you station
DMI number:: 20836

40. Did you never see the cozened daw

First Line:: Did you never see the cozened daw
Last Line:: If pleasing and have colour for our own
DMI number:: 3892

41. 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

42. 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

43. Disgraced undone and made the nation's sport

First Line:: Disgraced undone and made the nation's sport
Last Line:: Ingloriously whilst we contend for all
DMI number:: 12572

44. Dryden thy wit has caterwauled too long

First Line:: Dryden thy wit has caterwauled too long
Last Line:: Why then the marvel that a poet sins
DMI number:: 42324

45. False hair false teeth and one false eye

First Line:: False hair false teeth and one false eye
Last Line:: Thus false is a true woman still
DMI number:: 21990

46. From a proud sensual atheistical life

First Line:: From a proud sensual atheistical life
Last Line:: From making our heirs to be Morrice and Clayton | Libera nos Domine
DMI number:: 4742

47. From a wife of small fortune but yet very proud

First Line:: From a wife of small fortune but yet very proud
Last Line:: From petty coats where the inside's very naught | Libera me
DMI number:: 22362

48. Foul is the fault though never so quaint the skill

First Line:: Foul is the fault though never so quaint the skill
Last Line:: That conceals truth to lessen any ill
DMI number:: 41360

49. 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

50. For naked truth let others write

First Line:: For naked truth let others write
Last Line:: Since all the world's for lying
Author:: Samuel Wesley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 5619