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1. A pox on rhymes and physic S---ly cried

First Line:
A pox on rhymes and physic S---ly cried
Last Line:
My papers may but thou canst never be spoiled
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3579

2. Advice to P----rs the adviser's zeal may prove

First Line:
Advice to P----rs the adviser's zeal may prove
Last Line:
Religion is a trick you never have known
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3588

3. Believe me madam that your muse has shown

First Line:
Believe me madam that your muse has shown
Last Line:
That's made of rhymes of woman and of turd
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3589

4. Bold man of war the drift of thy designs

First Line:
Bold man of war the drift of thy designs
Last Line:
Or S-----d should absolve him as a friend
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3584

5. By nature meant by want a pedant made

First Line:
By nature meant by want a pedant made
Last Line:
A gift which all thy lines can never give
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3629

6. By nature small and of a dwarfish breed

First Line:
By nature small and of a dwarfish breed
Last Line:
If he rewards no better than he writes
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3578

7. Codron may please the ladies as he writes

First Line:
Codron may please the ladies as he writes
Last Line:
Such fops as thou can never please the men
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3594

8. Dame Fortune's just malicious fool I see

First Line:
Dame Fortune's just malicious fool I see
Last Line:
And rises when thou canst not lower fall
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3600

9. Friend by my soul the devil's in thy quill

First Line:
Friend by my soul the devil's in thy quill
Last Line:
Or thou the man for whom he judges thee
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3595

10. Job as thou sayst being willing to forget

First Line:
Job as thou sayst being willing to forget
Last Line:
Dies of it self and's born to be forgot
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3614

11. If B----re labours as he writes to please

First Line:
If B----re labours as he writes to please
Last Line:
As if cannot fall it cannot rise
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3605

12. If coffee does awake the senses keep

First Line:
If coffee does awake the senses keep
Last Line:
And only run 'em over for sleepings sake
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3598

13. If Arthur from a ravished parent came

First Line:
If Arthur from a ravished parent came
Last Line:
Writing dost still commit a rape on sense
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3627

14. If shallow critics as you're pleased to say

First Line:
If shallow critics as you're pleased to say
Last Line:
You must mind judgment more and friendship less
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3592

15. If shitten lines should wipe a shitten a-se

First Line:
If shitten lines should wipe a shitten a-se
Last Line:
Is dust to dust but here it's t---d to t---d
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3601

16. Let B-----le write on and styled a man of letters

First Line:
Let B-----le write on and styled a man of letters
Last Line:
And plays the tyrant over a tyrant's lines
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3581

17. Not that I blame your flattery or your spleen

First Line:
Not that I blame your flattery or your spleen
Last Line:
His P----tle to divert 'em than his muse
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3593

18. Prithee dear scribbling doctor why so short

First Line:
Prithee dear scribbling doctor why so short
Last Line:
Thou hast as many living that is none
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3582

19. Prithee my gentle man of crape and prayer

First Line:
Prithee my gentle man of crape and prayer
Last Line:
Sir Richard never will say the same of thee
Author:
Sir Richard Blackmore (Speculation)
DMI number:
3602

20. See who never was or will be half read

First Line:
See who never was or will be half read
Last Line:
But send him honest Job thy wife
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident) & John Gay (Speculation)
DMI number:
13483