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1. A canting Scot in thy vile sermons preaches

First Line:
A canting Scot in thy vile sermons preaches
Last Line:
Will not believe the devil before the scot
DMI number:
42730

2. A clergyman that oft hath preached

First Line:
A clergyman that oft hath preached
Last Line:
To this day that I heard
DMI number:
41932

3. A Levite gaming makes the saying true

First Line:
A Levite gaming makes the saying true
Last Line:
Tables much fitter for a Levite's use
DMI number:
18094

4. 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

5. All hail of ages thou perpetual source

First Line:
All hail of ages thou perpetual source
Last Line:
Then gave a monitory glance and fled
DMI number:
18150

6. About an bank with balmy bewis

First Line:
About an bank with balmy bewis
Last Line:
Quhois glore eternall rings
Author:
Alexander Montgomerie (Absolute)
DMI number:
10935

7. Alas what has this poor animal done

First Line:
Alas what has this poor animal done
Last Line:
The direful operations of your ungodly hate
DMI number:
42984

8. Angels and ministers of grace defend us

First Line:
Angels and ministers of grace defend us
Last Line:
With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
37361

9. An abbot rich whose taste was good

First Line:
An abbot rich whose taste was good
Last Line:
First mend the faults they find in others
Author:
John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:
21903

10. And is he gone to his eternal rest

First Line:
And is he gone to his eternal rest
Last Line:
And as the righteous live and as the righteous die
Author:
Charles Wesley (Absolute)
DMI number:
27465

11. Almighty three who guard the just

First Line:
Almighty three who guard the just
Last Line:
So Heaven abandon or espouse our cause | Amen
Author:
Robertson||Alexander||of Struan (Absolute)
DMI number:
35472

12. Ambition is the stamp impressed by heaven

First Line:
Ambition is the stamp impressed by heaven
Last Line:
Conducts the sun and regulates the spheres
Author:
Samuel Johnson (Absolute)
DMI number:
37441

13. As Celia to the almighty prayed

First Line:
As Celia to the almighty prayed
Last Line:
And lastly let the devil take him | Lord I beseech thee
DMI number:
18273

14. As I walked of late by an wood side

First Line:
As I walked of late by an wood side
Last Line:
And then good housekeeping wold revive out of hand
DMI number:
37404

15. Ascend Alecto from thy den and come

First Line:
Ascend Alecto from thy den and come
Last Line:
They vanished and Alecto sunk to hell
DMI number:
42999

16. Begin my muse the dire adventure tell

First Line:
Begin my muse the dire adventure tell
Last Line:
And in a moment up the chimney flew
Author:
Abel Evans (Absolute)
DMI number:
22236

17. Behold we flowers that bloom from hour to hour

First Line:
Behold we flowers that bloom from hour to hour
Last Line:
Adhere to him and all his goodness prove
DMI number:
36853

18. But were not nature still endowed at large

First Line:
But were not nature still endowed at large
Last Line:
Such and so various are the tastes of men
Author:
Mark Akenside (Absolute)
DMI number:
37105

19. Celestial wisdom in a virtuous soul

First Line:
Celestial wisdom in a virtuous soul
Last Line:
And waft them gently to the blissful plains
DMI number:
18149

20. Children and youth to God present

First Line:
Children and youth to God present
Last Line:
And will with heaven's avail
DMI number:
36338

21. Chloe a country vicar's daughter

First Line:
Chloe a country vicar's daughter
Last Line:
And drowns her senses intellectual
DMI number:
9684

22. Chloe a country vicar's daughter

First Line:
Chloe a country vicar's daughter
Last Line:
And lies with every man she meets
DMI number:
21912

23. Chloe loves only me she vows

First Line:
Chloe loves only me she vows
Last Line:
And gain himself promotion
DMI number:
12754

24. 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

25. Come try your thoughts ye thinking scribbling tribe

First Line:
Come try your thoughts ye thinking scribbling tribe
Last Line:
The author freely lends the key
Author:
William le Tans'ur (Absolute)
DMI number:
36544

26. Christian is the highest style of man

First Line:
Christian is the highest style of man
Author:
Edward Young (Speculation)
DMI number:
34185

27. Come children come and learn your father's trade

First Line:
Come children come and learn your father's trade
Last Line:
And with their money drink and drab and whore
DMI number:
43022

28. Cursed as the evil one is he

First Line:
Cursed as the evil one is he
Last Line:
I rise take breath and run away
DMI number:
35997

29. Cursed be the timorous fool whose feeble mind

First Line:
Cursed be the timorous fool whose feeble mind
Last Line:
A steady resolute heroic soul
DMI number:
3655

30. Conscience thou home-felt friend or innate foe

First Line:
Conscience thou home-felt friend or innate foe
Last Line:
And heaven is half obtained before we die
Author:
George Sewell (Speculation)
DMI number:
12001

31. Conscience thou native guide of human kind

First Line:
Conscience thou native guide of human kind
Last Line:
Soul truth light reason centre all in thee Procul esto severi
DMI number:
24551

32. Death dost thou difficult us now to know

First Line:
Death dost thou difficult us now to know
Last Line:
She quickly clap her wings and soar away
Author:
Ralph Erskine (Absolute)
DMI number:
15285

33. Deep in the bosom of a vale

First Line:
Deep in the bosom of a vale
Last Line:
They never shall reach my furthest link
DMI number:
36032

34. Do I seem

First Line:
Do I seem
Last Line:
Whenever that shall be
Author:
John Milton (Absolute)
DMI number:
33348

35. Dubius sed non improbus vixi

First Line:
Dubius sed non improbus vixi
Last Line:
Ens entium miserere mihi
Author:
George Villiers (Speculation)
DMI number:
35086

36. Father of lights what glories in that name

First Line:
Father of lights what glories in that name
Last Line:
Day without night and raptures without end
DMI number:
36346

37. Eve at his feet

First Line:
Eve at his feet
Last Line:
Me me only just object of his ire
Author:
John Milton (Absolute)
DMI number:
33357

38. Experience out of observation says

First Line:
Experience out of observation says
Last Line:
The righteous man to punish sinful folly
DMI number:
43712

39. Fret not thyself when wicked men prevail

First Line:
Fret not thyself when wicked men prevail
Last Line:
For none ever trusted in the Lord in vain
Author:
Mary Masters (Absolute)
DMI number:
23775

40. For various trials from our birth designed

First Line:
For various trials from our birth designed
Last Line:
And consecrates this trophy to thy praise
DMI number:
36200

41. From infallible Rome once more I am come

First Line:
From infallible Rome once more I am come
Last Line:
Nor take his ballad in dudgeon
DMI number:
42977

42. From Mahomet and paganism

First Line:
From Mahomet and paganism
Last Line:
Libera nos Domine
DMI number:
42990

43. From Rome's infallibility take a grain

First Line:
From Rome's infallibility take a grain
Last Line:
And tis the true Catholic cordial posset
DMI number:
44341

44. From Stygian shade lo my pale ghost doth rise

First Line:
From Stygian shade lo my pale ghost doth rise
Last Line:
And perhaps may then leave purgatory
DMI number:
43008

45. God bless my good lord bishop

First Line:
God bless my good lord bishop
Last Line:
Then kissing would be dear
DMI number:
42991

46. God's sacred law let none profane

First Line:
God's sacred law let none profane
Last Line:
Thy joy and everlasting peace
DMI number:
36553

47. Hail glorious author of creation's frame

First Line:
Hail glorious author of creation's frame
Last Line:
Cries there ye rebels go and meet your God
DMI number:
36274

48. Grace rules below and sits enthroned above

First Line:
Grace rules below and sits enthroned above
Last Line:
Tinged in the vital stream of my redeemer's blood
Author:
Isaac Watts (Absolute)
DMI number:
25499

49. Hail venerable South be honour paid

First Line:
Hail venerable South be honour paid
Last Line:
To all the adorers of the great three one
Author:
Samuel Wesley (Absolute)
DMI number:
27408

50. Hear all ye deaf no more be hopeless sad

First Line:
Hear all ye deaf no more be hopeless sad
Last Line:
Eternal happiness shall crown their end
DMI number:
36281

51. Have angels sinned and shall not men beware

First Line:
Have angels sinned and shall not men beware
Last Line:
His joys are joys of conquest not of peace
Author:
Edward Young (Absolute)
DMI number:
33142

52. Have you no words but what are only good

First Line:
Have you no words but what are only good
Last Line:
To hear of absolution when you die
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:
17010

53. He names me and comes to me I whisper God

First Line:
He names me and comes to me I whisper God
Last Line:
Some of the stocks are their fruits bastard all
Author:
John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:
28032

54. He was a man that would keep church so duly rise

First Line:
He was a man that would keep church so duly rise
Last Line:
Was as hard as the pulpit
Author:
William Shakespeare (Speculation)
DMI number:
14528

55. He who has drunk the ethereal stream

First Line:
He who has drunk the ethereal stream
Last Line:
Dissolved with a dissolving world
DMI number:
36344

56. He that is down needs fear no fall

First Line:
He that is down needs fear no fall
Last Line:
Have God to be his guide
Author:
John Bunyan (Absolute)
DMI number:
15418

57. He that relieves his neighbour in distress

First Line:
He that relieves his neighbour in distress
Last Line:
Is sure in the end to have a heavenly store
DMI number:
36745

58. Hence ye irreligious hence

First Line:
Hence ye irreligious hence
Last Line:
A faint among the saints shall shine
DMI number:
22051

59. Henceforth I learn that to obey is best

First Line:
Henceforth I learn that to obey is best
Last Line:
Acknowledge my redeemer ever blest
Author:
John Milton (Absolute)
DMI number:
33346

60. Here is the spring where waters flow

First Line:
Here is the spring where waters flow
Last Line:
When God by death thee calls
Author:
John Marbeck (Speculation)
DMI number:
36532

61. How dead and no presaging star to show

First Line:
How dead and no presaging star to show
Last Line:
And in so doing bless our late posterity
DMI number:
42884

62. Here will I rest and build my hopes

First Line:
Here will I rest and build my hopes
Last Line:
My health my life my God
DMI number:
35275

63. How solemn is the pile how still the scenes

First Line:
How solemn is the pile how still the scenes
Last Line:
That honour is virtue and that great is good
Author:
Thomas Drummond (Absolute)
DMI number:
36216

64. I am not high church nor low church nor tory nor whig

First Line:
I am not high church nor low church nor tory nor whig
Last Line:
I submit to the will of an infinite god
DMI number:
15338

65. I judge and find how God doth mind

First Line:
I judge and find how God doth mind
Last Line:
To have an hundreth in a score
DMI number:
49226

66. Immortal God whom men and angels own

First Line:
Immortal God whom men and angels own
Last Line:
But thou in thine excellst them every one
DMI number:
36219

67. In short she is I scarce can tell the best

First Line:
In short she is I scarce can tell the best
Last Line:
A primitive saint or virgin was the least
DMI number:
6858

68. In common worldly things tis called ungrateful

First Line:
In common worldly things tis called ungrateful
Last Line:
For it requires the royal debt it lent you
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
37408

69. In crowds the Ladies throng where pleasure calls

First Line:
In crowds the Ladies throng where pleasure calls
Last Line:
They've nothing else to do but mind their souls
DMI number:
25188

70. In doubt I lived

First Line:
In doubt I lived
Last Line:
What faith I lived or died in
DMI number:
11988

71. Is this the man that's now the object made

First Line:
Is this the man that's now the object made
Last Line:
'Gainst him the prey they greedily devour
DMI number:
8095

72. It blew an hard storm and in utmost confusion

First Line:
It blew an hard storm and in utmost confusion
Last Line:
They tossed the poor parson souse into the ocean
Author:
William Taylor (Absolute)
DMI number:
27765

73. It comes the wished the long expected morn

First Line:
It comes the wished the long expected morn
Last Line:
Filled with our god and with our god indued
Author:
Henry Brooke (Absolute)
DMI number:
36195

74. In what a maze of error here I stray

First Line:
In what a maze of error here I stray
Last Line:
Make me the polished shaft to obey thy will
Author:
Edmund Arwaker (Absolute)
DMI number:
36205

75. Indeed Mr C- it seems very odd

First Line:
Indeed Mr C- it seems very odd
Last Line:
How happy 'twill be for the devil and you
DMI number:
24522

76. Is it in words to paint you O ye fallen

First Line:
Is it in words to paint you O ye fallen
Last Line:
To curse not uncreate is all your power
Author:
Edward Young (Absolute)
DMI number:
33041

77. Judge not what is best

First Line:
Judge not what is best
Last Line:
The world ere long a world of tears must weep
Author:
John Milton (Absolute)
DMI number:
33342

78. Lo now confused heaps only stand

First Line:
Lo now confused heaps only stand
Last Line:
Yield us more blessings unto those before
DMI number:
42979

79. Like Noah's ark the spacious room is filled

First Line:
Like Noah's ark the spacious room is filled
Last Line:
Wanted the righteous eight that saved us all
DMI number:
17430

80. Muttering the winds at eve with blunted point

First Line:
Muttering the winds at eve with blunted point
Last Line:
Through all this dreary labyrinth of fate
Author:
James Thomson (Absolute)
DMI number:
33036

81. I'm not designed to say who lies beneath

First Line:
I'm not designed to say who lies beneath
Last Line:
In which with Jesus thou shalt ever reign
DMI number:
33045

82. I sing a prelate good unbodied now

First Line:
I sing a prelate good unbodied now
Last Line:
Till then to battle and but there to die
Author:
Samuel Wesley (Absolute)
DMI number:
27404

83. I pray you all that receive bread and pence

First Line:
I pray you all that receive bread and pence
Last Line:
To say the Lord's Prayer before you go hence
DMI number:
33802

84. If any find of womankind

First Line:
If any find of womankind
Last Line:
Wilt bless us evermore Amen
Author:
Robert Allen (Absolute)
DMI number:
12106

85. If virtue in a medium does consist

First Line:
If virtue in a medium does consist
Last Line:
If ever it did in medio consist
DMI number:
6059

86. If rural Phidile at the moon's arise

First Line:
If rural Phidile at the moon's arise
Last Line:
As if thou vows with costly victims seal
Author:
Sir Thomas Hawkins (Absolute)
DMI number:
42122

87. Know then this truth enough for man to know

First Line:
Know then this truth enough for man to know
Last Line:
All end in love of god and love of man
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
12217

88. Know then this truth enough for man to know

First Line:
Know then this truth enough for man to know
Last Line:
And heaven beholds its image in his breast
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
31284

89. Know thou this truth enough for man to know

First Line:
Know thou this truth enough for man to know
Last Line:
And heaven beholds its image in his breast
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
35197

90. 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

91. Midst all the evils of a transient life

First Line:
Midst all the evils of a transient life
Last Line:
And meditate by night
DMI number:
25368

92. Man disobeying

First Line:
Man disobeying
Last Line:
Thenceforth but in thy presence joy entire
Author:
John Milton (Absolute)
DMI number:
33351

93. Modes of self love the passions we may call

First Line:
Modes of self love the passions we may call
Last Line:
Tis this though man's a fool yet God is wise
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
37176

94. Luke preach-ill admires what we laymen can mean

First Line:
Luke preach-ill admires what we laymen can mean
Last Line:
He can be content with two thousand a year
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
16878

95. Men may amuse themselves with knavish tricks

First Line:
Men may amuse themselves with knavish tricks
Last Line:
Distrusted in this life and punished in the next
DMI number:
24979

96. Near Isis spring the muses poor retreat

First Line:
Near Isis spring the muses poor retreat
Last Line:
The palace has already had its due
Author:
Nahum Tate (Absolute)
DMI number:
5918

97. No fears by which our sceptics are distressed

First Line:
No fears by which our sceptics are distressed
Last Line:
Her soul would start to hear a word profane
Author:
Robert Gould (Absolute)
DMI number:
6855

98. Now spent the fallen king in amorous cares

First Line:
Now spent the fallen king in amorous cares
Last Line:
Who gives but earthly comforts for his sins
Author:
Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill] (Absolute)
DMI number:
36203

99. O for a quill drawn from an angel's wing

First Line:
O for a quill drawn from an angel's wing
Last Line:
Immortal bliss and life beyond the grave
DMI number:
4103

100. O thou the brightener of our joys

First Line:
O thou the brightener of our joys
Last Line:
And joys best emblems of thy own abound
DMI number:
36079