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1. A fatal error tis in men of wealth

First Line:
A fatal error tis in men of wealth
Last Line:
To feed so high as will destroy their health
DMI number:
23381

2. A cow and goat and simple ewe

First Line:
A cow and goat and simple ewe
Last Line:
Silent and sad renounce their dinners
DMI number:
19887

3. Accustom early in your youth

First Line:
Accustom early in your youth
Last Line:
A thousand perish by repletion
DMI number:
23377

4. As Hodge and Dick the hoof were beating

First Line:
As Hodge and Dick the hoof were beating
Last Line:
To eat oysters up and leave the shells to clients
DMI number:
5364

5. Are you not proud of your clothes

First Line:
Are you not proud of your clothes
Last Line:
Made proud by the favour of a waiting-woman
Author:
Robert Tailor (Absolute)
DMI number:
17318

6. Bacchus to give the toping world surprise

First Line:
Bacchus to give the toping world surprise
Last Line:
Pray copy Bob in measure and attendance
DMI number:
21406

7. Behold the labourer of the glebe who toils

First Line:
Behold the labourer of the glebe who toils
Last Line:
The vocal forest with the jovial horn
Author:
John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:
30691

8. But would you sweetly waste the blank of night

First Line:
But would you sweetly waste the blank of night
Last Line:
With feasts too late too solid or too full
Author:
John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:
30701

9. Choose leaner vianer viands ye whose jovial make

First Line:
Choose leaner vianer viands ye whose jovial make
Last Line:
Without or waste or avarice maintains
Author:
John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:
30669

10. Easop relates a tale weil worth renown

First Line:
Easop relates a tale weil worth renown
Last Line:
Blythness of hairt in peace with small possesion
Author:
Robert Henryson (Absolute)
DMI number:
10873

11. Doctor tis false I'll never believe

First Line:
Doctor tis false I'll never believe
Last Line:
Than any prince in Germany
DMI number:
23867

12. How great a virtue tis and how it tends

First Line:
How great a virtue tis and how it tends
Last Line:
And in all troubles quit your selves like men
Author:
Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:
42180

13. How to live happiest how avoid the pains

First Line:
How to live happiest how avoid the pains
Last Line:
And in the original perused mankind
Author:
John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:
30715

14. Isgrim one day intent to dine

First Line:
Isgrim one day intent to dine
Last Line:
The same to me a wolf or you
DMI number:
19876

15. Is by superior faculties misled

First Line:
Is by superior faculties misled
Last Line:
And know that temperance is true luxury
Author:
John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:
30670

16. Lo precious rules are here made common

First Line:
Lo precious rules are here made common
Last Line:
To make a sweet harmonious end
DMI number:
42499

17. I would not always the same odours prove

First Line:
I would not always the same odours prove
Last Line:
But for the sweet vicissitude of night
DMI number:
10311

18. Let supper little be and light

First Line:
Let supper little be and light
Last Line:
Leaves morning's mouth sweet moist and clean
DMI number:
23379

19. Mean time at home with cheerful fires dispel

First Line:
Mean time at home with cheerful fires dispel
Last Line:
You brace your nerves and spur the lagging blood
Author:
John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:
30663

20. Nothing like simple element dilutes

First Line:
Nothing like simple element dilutes
Last Line:
The obstructed tubes
Author:
John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:
30677

21. Nothing so foreign but the athletic hind

First Line:
Nothing so foreign but the athletic hind
Last Line:
Of solid milk
Author:
John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:
30667

22. Oft I by wine have tried to lull my cares

First Line:
Oft I by wine have tried to lull my cares
Last Line:
What you must suffer learn by what I bear
DMI number:
41876

23. Of old the youth of Greece and Rome

First Line:
Of old the youth of Greece and Rome
Last Line:
Who eats three shillings worth must burst
DMI number:
33547

24. On St David's day

First Line:
On St David's day
Last Line:
Sow pease good or bad
DMI number:
23473

25. Some with high forage and luxuriant ease

First Line:
Some with high forage and luxuriant ease
Last Line:
The wooed embrace
Author:
John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:
30668

26. Sometimes at eve

First Line:
Sometimes at eve
Last Line:
And at my table find himself at home
Author:
John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:
30693

27. Then learn to revel but by slow degrees

First Line:
Then learn to revel but by slow degrees
Last Line:
Except when life declines even sober cups
Author:
John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:
30678

28. The sun-delighting fly repairs at first

First Line:
The sun-delighting fly repairs at first
Last Line:
With lavish cups remember well the fly
DMI number:
36724

29. Till hunger pinches never eat

First Line:
Till hunger pinches never eat
Last Line:
So no ructations you will feel
DMI number:
23380

30. To miss a meal sometimes is good

First Line:
To miss a meal sometimes is good
Last Line:
And fasting's nature's scavenger
DMI number:
23378

31. Tom had a lad lame with a broken thigh

First Line:
Tom had a lad lame with a broken thigh
Last Line:
When poor Tom was the soberest man alive
DMI number:
28264

32. What boys are ye mad is the Dutch devil in ye

First Line:
What boys are ye mad is the Dutch devil in ye
Last Line:
Use thy freedom to night man let the punk reign tomorrow
Author:
Thomas Brown (Confident)
DMI number:
42598

33. When hunger calls obey nor often wait

First Line:
When hunger calls obey nor often wait
Last Line:
Than war on famine
Author:
John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:
30672

34. When struck in years strong drink forbear

First Line:
When struck in years strong drink forbear
Last Line:
And wine of all sorts heats and dries
DMI number:
23376

35. When midnight's sable veil overspread the plain

First Line:
When midnight's sable veil overspread the plain
Last Line:
And to the trophied relics points on high
Author:
Samuel Bowden (Absolute)
DMI number:
26618

36. Whence brother Catius and whither bound so fast

First Line:
Whence brother Catius and whither bound so fast
Last Line:
If sweet the stream much sweeter is the spring
Author:
Thomas Flatman (Absolute)
DMI number:
42182

37. Wretch that I am and is it come to this

First Line:
Wretch that I am and is it come to this
Last Line:
Farewell to victuals greatness and to you
DMI number:
22046

38. Would you long the sweets of health enjoy

First Line:
Would you long the sweets of health enjoy
Last Line:
Of poison to mild amity with life
Author:
John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:
30671