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1. A good old woman being sick

First Line:
A good old woman being sick
Last Line:
And left her as he found her
DMI number:
5854

2. A cannon ball one bloody day

First Line:
A cannon ball one bloody day
Last Line:
His leg was off and not his head
Author:
William Taylor (Absolute)
DMI number:
27767

3. A cruel tiger all with teeth be bled

First Line:
A cruel tiger all with teeth be bled
Last Line:
Hath slain us both for cloaking of his crime
DMI number:
9071

4. A hopeful youth to honest maxims true

First Line:
A hopeful youth to honest maxims true
Last Line:
Quickly restore my son so help you god
DMI number:
9666

5. A man there lived at L- hall

First Line:
A man there lived at L- hall
Last Line:
The nation be at ease
DMI number:
31371

6. A monk sir and his brother

First Line:
A monk sir and his brother
Last Line:
For such a damned design
DMI number:
5452

7. A little languishing thou sentest to me

First Line:
A little languishing thou sentest to me
Last Line:
I scarcely then was sick but now am like to die
DMI number:
17388

8. Abel prescribe thyself trust not another

First Line:
Abel prescribe thyself trust not another
Last Line:
Some envious leech like Cain may slay his brother
DMI number:
33395

9. Achon by chance his right eye lost

First Line:
Achon by chance his right eye lost
Last Line:
A Venus thou the young blind god of love
DMI number:
5115

10. Ah Serenissa from our arms

First Line:
Ah Serenissa from our arms
Last Line:
You are not now invincible
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
8241

11. Ah whither fled are all those roses fair

First Line:
Ah whither fled are all those roses fair
Last Line:
Restore with kindness him you've almost slain
DMI number:
42724

12. Alas fair Chloe how can you

First Line:
Alas fair Chloe how can you
Last Line:
If so my Chloe felt no more
DMI number:
10619

13. Afflections do often put saints to a stand

First Line:
Afflections do often put saints to a stand
Last Line:
And for a release on our god let us wait
DMI number:
26382

14. Among the well bred natives of our isle

First Line:
Among the well bred natives of our isle
Last Line:
We'll wish you still the gout if still you write
Author:
Robert Pitt (Absolute)
DMI number:
33610

15. An altar raise to friendship's holy flame

First Line:
An altar raise to friendship's holy flame
Last Line:
Come down to teach how happy angels love
Author:
John Hughes (Absolute)
DMI number:
8360

16. And in his heart as in a fort remains

First Line:
And in his heart as in a fort remains
Last Line:
And sickness triumphs in the throne of love
Author:
John Sheffield (Absolute)
DMI number:
6005

17. Although disease infects my breast

First Line:
Although disease infects my breast
Last Line:
And yield my parting breath
DMI number:
33143

18. And now the health of Doxius still impairs

First Line:
And now the health of Doxius still impairs
Last Line:
With venom soon distend the sinews of his breast
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
5571

19. As lolling in an elbow chair

First Line:
As lolling in an elbow chair
Last Line:
Supply a plaister to my a----
DMI number:
33316

20. 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

21. As mortals languish when the rays of light

First Line:
As mortals languish when the rays of light
Last Line:
With angels whom in charms she equalled here
DMI number:
22063

22. As they whom ranging fevers burn

First Line:
As they whom ranging fevers burn
Last Line:
That give me first my wound
DMI number:
44651

23. As those we love decay we die in part

First Line:
As those we love decay we die in part
Last Line:
Till dying all he can resign is breath
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
25104

24. As timorous sailors when from sea they spy

First Line:
As timorous sailors when from sea they spy
Last Line:
For she alone can give my sickened soul relief
DMI number:
40075

25. As Venus from her sphere surveyed

First Line:
As Venus from her sphere surveyed
Last Line:
A fond officious slave
DMI number:
2146

26. As fierce invaders when they sack a state

First Line:
As fierce invaders when they sack a state
Last Line:
Those gave a goddess life and these restore
DMI number:
8042

27. As honest Richard a substantial clown

First Line:
As honest Richard a substantial clown
Last Line:
But don't be angry for I haven't been sick
DMI number:
33390

28. Are these thy palms oh queen of love

First Line:
Are these thy palms oh queen of love
Last Line:
Unrigged and leaky to the inclement skies
DMI number:
27771

29. Arise and live our great restorer said

First Line:
Arise and live our great restorer said
Last Line:
Restored to more than life to him I loved
Author:
Mary Goddard (Speculation)
DMI number:
21940

30. As Colin in an elbow chair

First Line:
As Colin in an elbow chair
Last Line:
Supply a plaister to my a----
DMI number:
33268

31. Around your couch while sighing lovers view

First Line:
Around your couch while sighing lovers view
Last Line:
To see her well though we the next expire
Author:
John Hughes (Absolute)
DMI number:
8361

32. As popish farriers use to employ

First Line:
As popish farriers use to employ
Last Line:
Tell us in March your highness heals
DMI number:
43041

33. At midnight when the fever raged

First Line:
At midnight when the fever raged
Last Line:
And charmed my soul to rest
DMI number:
17666

34. Blind love to this hour

First Line:
Blind love to this hour
Last Line:
But more blessed be those eyes that caused my desire
DMI number:
43902

35. Beneath an hawthorn bush secreted shade

First Line:
Beneath an hawthorn bush secreted shade
Last Line:
S'lud if I catch him by this hand he dies
Author:
William Dodd (Absolute)
DMI number:
20443

36. Captain by wars some people got not one thing

First Line:
Captain by wars some people got not one thing
Last Line:
Loose both your legs you'll lose but eighteen pence
DMI number:
5296

37. By Sas's sickly streams we sat

First Line:
By Sas's sickly streams we sat
Last Line:
And dad them to the stanes
Author:
Sir Robert Murray Keith (Absolute)
DMI number:
35298

38. By the side of the slow running Zoom

First Line:
By the side of the slow running Zoom
Last Line:
His coat shall be turned up with green
Author:
Sir Robert Murray Keith (Absolute)
DMI number:
35301

39. By heaven you stir not

First Line:
By heaven you stir not
Last Line:
And curses great as is thy falsehood catch thee
Author:
Thomas Otway (Absolute)
DMI number:
35135

40. But if diseases thou hast none

First Line:
But if diseases thou hast none
Last Line:
And make thy body ten times worse
DMI number:
43731

41. But what a thoughtless animal is man

First Line:
But what a thoughtless animal is man
Last Line:
And where they fell as certainly they slew
Author:
Wentworth Dillon (Absolute)
DMI number:
10800

42. Cease to demand the cause why I

First Line:
Cease to demand the cause why I
Last Line:
The application love
DMI number:
10652

43. Celestial charity with ray divine

First Line:
Celestial charity with ray divine
Last Line:
For all those virtues shine confessed in you
DMI number:
40554

44. Chloe fell sick do you know why

First Line:
Chloe fell sick do you know why
Last Line:
She had her ends and so recovered
DMI number:
17677

45. Chloe like Milton makes a dismal rout

First Line:
Chloe like Milton makes a dismal rout
Last Line:
Our mouths we open and it enters there
DMI number:
25016

46. Chloe no more unjustly fear

First Line:
Chloe no more unjustly fear
Last Line:
Dissolving into air
DMI number:
17395

47. Celia is sick and oh if Celia die

First Line:
Celia is sick and oh if Celia die
Last Line:
Will turn to chaos for the loss of thee
DMI number:
11220

48. Celsus nor gave me puge nor clyster

First Line:
Celsus nor gave me puge nor clyster
Last Line:
The doctor's name and died for fear
DMI number:
32987

49. Come let us be friends and most friendly agree

First Line:
Come let us be friends and most friendly agree
Last Line:
The doctor new vamps and upsets her again
DMI number:
43944

50. Deaf giddy helpless left alone

First Line:
Deaf giddy helpless left alone
Last Line:
I hardly hear a woman's clack
Author:
Jonathan Swift (Absolute)
DMI number:
11315

51. Cupid who long had vainly strove

First Line:
Cupid who long had vainly strove
Last Line:
What tis to slight the god of love
DMI number:
25454

52. Cruel and impartial sickness

First Line:
Cruel and impartial sickness
Last Line:
Till I from myself do depart
DMI number:
49728

53. Cruel and unpartial sickness

First Line:
Cruel and unpartial sickness
Last Line:
Till I from my self depart
DMI number:
49879

54. Cruel disease thus to invade

First Line:
Cruel disease thus to invade
Last Line:
Mine plant a dagger in the heart
DMI number:
26747

55. Cruel distemper thus to seize

First Line:
Cruel distemper thus to seize
Last Line:
Like Phoebus through a cloud
DMI number:
10505

56. Death by a conduct strange and new

First Line:
Death by a conduct strange and new
Last Line:
And died because he feared to die
DMI number:
32261

57. Dear madam if you'll tell me plain

First Line:
Dear madam if you'll tell me plain
Last Line:
But from the measure and the motion
DMI number:
36909

58. Dick's wife was sick and posed the doctor's skill

First Line:
Dick's wife was sick and posed the doctor's skill
Last Line:
But I'se think bleeding's like to do most good
DMI number:
22727

59. Did B------ that assassin ever give

First Line:
Did B------ that assassin ever give
Last Line:
'Tis false and needs no proof for I'm alive
DMI number:
3549

60. Disease thou ever most propitious power

First Line:
Disease thou ever most propitious power
Last Line:
To fix your empire and confirm your sway
Author:
Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:
30985

61. Distressed o god yet passive how the scales

First Line:
Distressed o god yet passive how the scales
Last Line:
And nothing able to resist thy will
DMI number:
22083

62. Father divine eternal one

First Line:
Father divine eternal one
Last Line:
To know and love thee more
DMI number:
32410

63. Febris is first the hag relentless hears

First Line:
Febris is first the hag relentless hears
Last Line:
Who at his nod rest of line missing in ecco copy
Author:
Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:
30987

64. Few of the grave and wise delight to go

First Line:
Few of the grave and wise delight to go
Last Line:
Great is the wonder and the payment small
Author:
Alexander Pennecuik (Confident)
DMI number:
28096

65. Fair Myra to your worth I bring

First Line:
Fair Myra to your worth I bring
Last Line:
I heard you play and sing
DMI number:
25103

66. Franks flesh is free and yet it is not free

First Line:
Franks flesh is free and yet it is not free
Last Line:
Franks flesh is not free from French diseases
DMI number:
43764

67. For health restored and lengthened days

First Line:
For health restored and lengthened days
Last Line:
And to thy glory spent
DMI number:
32412

68. Forgive me heaven if I now accuse

First Line:
Forgive me heaven if I now accuse
Last Line:
My soul long since to her my heaven fled
DMI number:
44600

69. For temperance will health preserve

First Line:
For temperance will health preserve
Last Line:
From abstinence and exercise
DMI number:
24983

70. For cares whilst love prepares the remedies

First Line:
For cares whilst love prepares the remedies
Last Line:
The main disease in the physician lies
Author:
Charles Cotton (Absolute)
DMI number:
15725

71. Fly hence far hence distracting pain

First Line:
Fly hence far hence distracting pain
Last Line:
My sympathising heart
DMI number:
19355

72. From love and Bacchus nerve relaxing

First Line:
From love and Bacchus nerve relaxing
Last Line:
The nerve relaxing gout
DMI number:
32012

73. Gemellus seeks old Maronil to wed

First Line:
Gemellus seeks old Maronil to wed
Last Line:
What then provokes O she doth cough and wheeze
Author:
R. Fletcher (Confident)
DMI number:
15980

74. Gentle cupid god of love

First Line:
Gentle cupid god of love
Last Line:
The constant pangs of mine
DMI number:
40623

75. Gently ah gently lady touch the wound

First Line:
Gently ah gently lady touch the wound
Last Line:
For I too weak for bleeding grow
DMI number:
42676

76. From this vain world where ills abound

First Line:
From this vain world where ills abound
Last Line:
When that's the port and he thy friend
DMI number:
17793

77. God of my life and lengthened days

First Line:
God of my life and lengthened days
Last Line:
Till I thy face shall see
Author:
Mary Chandler (Absolute)
DMI number:
18317

78. Go on fair maid persist in your disdain

First Line:
Go on fair maid persist in your disdain
Last Line:
It's able to destroy the stoutest heart
DMI number:
44644

79. Gracious and blessed how shall the muse aspire

First Line:
Gracious and blessed how shall the muse aspire
Last Line:
And her creator's praise in happier numbers sing
DMI number:
36190

80. Gracious disposer of all worldly things

First Line:
Gracious disposer of all worldly things
Last Line:
Whole nations by her life will joy receive
DMI number:
17807

81. Hece ye follies light and vain

First Line:
Hece ye follies light and vain
Last Line:
There's nought so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy
DMI number:
36712

82. Health seems a cherub most divinely bright

First Line:
Health seems a cherub most divinely bright
Last Line:
Fine ease in chains or anguish in a crown
Author:
Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:
5489

83. Hear ye bright muses your own Dryden's dead

First Line:
Hear ye bright muses your own Dryden's dead
Last Line:
She left her garment and to heaven aspired
DMI number:
3528

84. Here first the doctor's talent came in play

First Line:
Here first the doctor's talent came in play
Last Line:
And from ill doctor turns good architect
DMI number:
10803

85. Here lies an head that often ached

First Line:
Here lies an head that often ached
Last Line:
Where just men's perfect spirits move
DMI number:
20429

86. Here lies crafty Joan deny it who can

First Line:
Here lies crafty Joan deny it who can
Last Line:
Whilst one leg stood still the other was running
DMI number:
29450

87. Here lies the man whose vicious life did pass

First Line:
Here lies the man whose vicious life did pass
Last Line:
Vintner in chief to Satan and his fry
DMI number:
6068

88. Hold sirs pray stop advancing now more near

First Line:
Hold sirs pray stop advancing now more near
Last Line:
Here our loved Rector lies dear Doctor Brett
DMI number:
30126

89. Honoured with Venturana's converse

First Line:
Honoured with Venturana's converse
Last Line:
She bleeding blistering and cupping must endure
DMI number:
9642

90. How foolish is the spark to trust the lass

First Line:
How foolish is the spark to trust the lass
Last Line:
To borrow English coin but pay in French
DMI number:
5098

91. Here's a glyster pipe well try'd

First Line:
Here's a glyster pipe well try'd
Last Line:
To cure the colds of the rump
DMI number:
38384

92. I cannot stand or go the cripple cries

First Line:
I cannot stand or go the cripple cries
Last Line:
What doth he then if he says true he lies
DMI number:
7550

93. I am no soldier but a friend to peace

First Line:
I am no soldier but a friend to peace
Last Line:
That coward-like I sneak and come behind
DMI number:
15329

94. I burn says one I of a fever burn

First Line:
I burn says one I of a fever burn
Last Line:
Only thy empty stomach did complain
DMI number:
17293

95. I had indeed three years ago

First Line:
I had indeed three years ago
Last Line:
I've no such thing but sir I rest | Yours etc
DMI number:
22161

96. I hope good friend your plaguy gout

First Line:
I hope good friend your plaguy gout
Last Line:
Tis for the benefit of Bungy
DMI number:
12795

97. In the close covert of a cypress grove

First Line:
In the close covert of a cypress grove
Last Line:
Who at his nod on fatal errands fly
Author:
Sir Samuel Garth (Absolute)
DMI number:
5576

98. In a garden t'other day

First Line:
In a garden t'other day
Last Line:
When your arrows pierce his heart
DMI number:
3547

99. In Scarlet towne where I was borne

First Line:
In Scarlet towne where I was borne
Last Line:
Of cruel Barbara Allen
DMI number:
37602

100. In France in Bohem Ree Palatinate

First Line:
In France in Bohem Ree Palatinate
Last Line:
We cannot find this trick of theirs to die
DMI number:
42003