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1. A gallant courting of a gamesome maid

First Line:
A gallant courting of a gamesome maid
Last Line:
If you will kiss you may if not forbear
DMI number:
18839

2. A thousand charms in Celia meet

First Line:
A thousand charms in Celia meet
Last Line:
Preserves so long her virgin reign
DMI number:
16178

3. A matron one day giving wholesome advice

First Line:
A matron one day giving wholesome advice
Last Line:
I've resolved to have one tis no matter for t'other
DMI number:
11082

4. A trout the plumpest in the tide

First Line:
A trout the plumpest in the tide
Last Line:
Nor sees her folly till undone
DMI number:
23094

5. Accept dear Percy from your long known friend

First Line:
Accept dear Percy from your long known friend
Last Line:
As shine with lustre in Northumberland
DMI number:
35294

6. Accept sweet maid each scene that Shakespeare drew

First Line:
Accept sweet maid each scene that Shakespeare drew
Last Line:
May Zara long live happy with a white one
DMI number:
33462

7. Amongst the willows on the grass

First Line:
Amongst the willows on the grass
Last Line:
Says Nell by Jove she lies | Says Nell &c
DMI number:
2621

8. All youths of fair England

First Line:
All youths of fair England
Last Line:
About the streets do flaunt
DMI number:
37627

9. And thus the libertine who builds a name

First Line:
And thus the libertine who builds a name
Last Line:
To charm to polish and to bless mankind
Author:
Henry Brooke (Absolute)
DMI number:
33740

10. As good Mr Crape with my lord was at dinner

First Line:
As good Mr Crape with my lord was at dinner
Last Line:
She's been so much used that she'll not be worth turning
DMI number:
24746

11. 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

12. As a wild rake that courts a virgin fair

First Line:
As a wild rake that courts a virgin fair
Last Line:
Do what we've done and ye'll be satisfied
DMI number:
28992

13. Be gone be gone thou perjured man

First Line:
Be gone be gone thou perjured man
Last Line:
No constant thought remain in man
DMI number:
43844

14. Beauty with virtue joined is the bright gem

First Line:
Beauty with virtue joined is the bright gem
Last Line:
Conceited living is a thing as rare
DMI number:
43191

15. Behold the fond Damon's despair

First Line:
Behold the fond Damon's despair
Last Line:
May Fanny approve of my verse
DMI number:
22013

16. Blame not your Almeda nor call her your grief

First Line:
Blame not your Almeda nor call her your grief
Last Line:
And all my kind wishes I strew on your hearse
DMI number:
44285

17. Bred up by parents' arbitrary rules

First Line:
Bred up by parents' arbitrary rules
Last Line:
True martyr to the cause rots stinks and dies
DMI number:
11161

18. Bonny Kate kenny Kate lay thy leg over me

First Line:
Bonny Kate kenny Kate lay thy leg over me
Last Line:
Bonny lad Jonny lad I'll never forget thee
DMI number:
44038

19. Beneath a cool shade where some here have been

First Line:
Beneath a cool shade where some here have been
Last Line:
All ravished with billing and dying with pleasure
DMI number:
4043

20. But must we then desert love and the fair

First Line:
But must we then desert love and the fair
Last Line:
To make the nauseous draught of life go down
Author:
John Wilmot (Absolute)
DMI number:
33738

21. 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

22. Chloe from all the pleasures of the town

First Line:
Chloe from all the pleasures of the town
Last Line:
Yet virtue never fails to meet reward
Author:
Edward Ward (Speculation)
DMI number:
5405

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 hither young sinner

First Line:
Come hither young sinner
Last Line:
And honour will bid thee goodnight
DMI number:
44068

25. Damon whom all the world but I believed

First Line:
Damon whom all the world but I believed
Last Line:
Shook off the beast and proved a God at last
Author:
William Pattison (Absolute)
DMI number:
25001

26. Doting Silenus in decline of life

First Line:
Doting Silenus in decline of life
Last Line:
And old Silenus glory in a son
DMI number:
12671

27. Folks that are wickedly inclined

First Line:
Folks that are wickedly inclined
Last Line:
Did you never cheat her in your life
Author:
John Bancks [Banks] (Absolute)
DMI number:
22778

28. From folly to vice and from vice to the grave

First Line:
From folly to vice and from vice to the grave
Last Line:
I wait for the passport of death to the devil
DMI number:
25470

29. From whence usurping man thy boasted claim

First Line:
From whence usurping man thy boasted claim
Last Line:
In choicer gifts but wit to use them well
DMI number:
43036

30. God bless my good lord bishop

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

31. Great Jove as ancient poets tell us

First Line:
Great Jove as ancient poets tell us
Last Line:
The fragrant flower or noxious weed
DMI number:
37158

32. Grown sick of crowds and noise

First Line:
Grown sick of crowds and noise
Last Line:
He takes his boots and mounts his nag
Author:
John Hoadly (Absolute)
DMI number:
27744

33. Hail O Belinda flattered fair

First Line:
Hail O Belinda flattered fair
Last Line:
O foolish age O dull mankind
Author:
Catullus (Confident)
DMI number:
12007

34. Happy the maid whose soul serene and chaste

First Line:
Happy the maid whose soul serene and chaste
Last Line:
In various shapes another and the same
DMI number:
25336

35. Ha false to me

First Line:
Ha false to me
Last Line:
I am your own for ever
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
40551

36. Hail wedded love by gracious God designed

First Line:
Hail wedded love by gracious God designed
Last Line:
And damns most surely whom he most enjoys
DMI number:
36224

37. Good Damon if you will you may

First Line:
Good Damon if you will you may
Last Line:
And fix her choice on none but you | For if ourselves &c
DMI number:
23137

38. Help me nature help me art

First Line:
Help me nature help me art
Last Line:
If he's false I'll fit him too
DMI number:
24629

39. He's happy that avoids lust female kind

First Line:
He's happy that avoids lust female kind
Last Line:
Faith in them filed they have a wicked man
DMI number:
41927

40. He's happy that avoids lust female kind

First Line:
He's happy that avoids lust female kind
Last Line:
Faith in them filled they have a wicked mind
DMI number:
41928

41. Happy was I o love when innocent

First Line:
Happy was I o love when innocent
Last Line:
And all the racks the restless guilty prove
DMI number:
42613

42. He that marries a merry lass

First Line:
He that marries a merry lass
Last Line:
He had better be without her
DMI number:
43890

43. Here all things do with paradise agree

First Line:
Here all things do with paradise agree
Last Line:
And faith we're all in paradise again
DMI number:
10081

44. I care not ye gods for the breath of a name

First Line:
I care not ye gods for the breath of a name
Last Line:
Let theirs be the cloud let Juno be mine
DMI number:
35293

45. I am confirmed a woman can

First Line:
I am confirmed a woman can
Last Line:
If ever I dote upon you more
DMI number:
44254

46. I dreamt my dear quoth Ralph to Jane

First Line:
I dreamt my dear quoth Ralph to Jane
Last Line:
A dream before that happened true
DMI number:
21725

47. In a fair island in the southern main

First Line:
In a fair island in the southern main
Last Line:
Would prove no doubt as perjured as before
Author:
Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen] (Confident) & Matthew Prior (Speculation)
DMI number:
21718

48. It is no glory virgins to deceive

First Line:
It is no glory virgins to deceive
Last Line:
The gods thy praises make it all the while
DMI number:
44527

49. Like a dog that runs madding at sheep or at cows

First Line:
Like a dog that runs madding at sheep or at cows
Last Line:
Just like an honest man and his wife
DMI number:
42479

50. Love bid me hope and I obeyed

First Line:
Love bid me hope and I obeyed
Last Line:
In women mean mistrustful shame
Author:
John Wilmot (Absolute)
DMI number:
598

51. Musing on cares of humane fate

First Line:
Musing on cares of humane fate
Last Line:
And thus they both were saved
Author:
Thomas D'Urfey (Absolute)
DMI number:
4509

52. My mistress is a shuttle cock

First Line:
My mistress is a shuttle cock
Last Line:
My mistress is an arrant -----
DMI number:
42935

53. I won't go to it I must not go to it

First Line:
I won't go to it I must not go to it
Last Line:
For one man's company
DMI number:
43889

54. I would not wrong him for all the sea's drowned

First Line:
I would not wrong him for all the sea's drowned
Last Line:
What most they seek they loathest of all would know
Author:
Edward Sharpham (Absolute)
DMI number:
15284

55. If ever o Hymen I add to thy tribe

First Line:
If ever o Hymen I add to thy tribe
Last Line:
Or a maid let me live and a maid let me die
DMI number:
35319

56. If there's a man in heart and tongue sincere

First Line:
If there's a man in heart and tongue sincere
Last Line:
His joys his sorrows only should be mine
DMI number:
38375

57. If pleasure follows when we think upon

First Line:
If pleasure follows when we think upon
Last Line:
Gods thus reward my goodness and I ask no more
DMI number:
41879

58. Lesbi the subject of my endless song

First Line:
Lesbi the subject of my endless song
Last Line:
Whilst Lesbi's soaring pinions mount the skies
DMI number:
12680

59. Let him that undertook to praise

First Line:
Let him that undertook to praise
Last Line:
As far as faiths church is below | Pauls steeple
DMI number:
44282

60. No coward he who in this critic age

First Line:
No coward he who in this critic age
Last Line:
And vice receive a stab from every smile
DMI number:
38270

61. No more I'll hear no more be gone and leave me

First Line:
No more I'll hear no more be gone and leave me
Last Line:
Is that just dealing nature Belvidera
Author:
Thomas Otway (Absolute)
DMI number:
40524

62. Now conscience thou art fled and gone

First Line:
Now conscience thou art fled and gone
Last Line:
And frolic all the universe
DMI number:
10697

63. O tempt me not with flattering snares

First Line:
O tempt me not with flattering snares
Last Line:
Had never descended in a shower
DMI number:
10238

64. Oh you are come most fitly we have pondered

First Line:
Oh you are come most fitly we have pondered
Last Line:
And only hope forgiveness in the grave
Author:
Nicholas Rowe (Absolute)
DMI number:
40526

65. Oh death thou gentle end of human sorrows

First Line:
Oh death thou gentle end of human sorrows
Last Line:
That love's the strongest power that lords it over the mind
Author:
Nicholas Rowe (Absolute)
DMI number:
40531

66. Our Smart of late so bold so gay

First Line:
Our Smart of late so bold so gay
Last Line:
Who rashly bold those faithful guides refuse
DMI number:
25324

67. Our author's muse a numerous issue boasts

First Line:
Our author's muse a numerous issue boasts
Last Line:
When worth's the motive constancy the end
Author:
Richardson Pack (Absolute)
DMI number:
17539

68. Prostrate at Chloe's feet one day

First Line:
Prostrate at Chloe's feet one day
Last Line:
Pray talk no more of dying
DMI number:
22002

69. Poor Cloris wept and from her eyes

First Line:
Poor Cloris wept and from her eyes
Last Line:
Unless in tears of sorrow drowned
DMI number:
44296

70. Poor credulous and simple maid

First Line:
Poor credulous and simple maid
Last Line:
Unless you come again tomorrow
DMI number:
11212

71. Run to love's lottery run maids and rejoice

First Line:
Run to love's lottery run maids and rejoice
Last Line:
Where sweetly bells at burials ring
DMI number:
44289

72. Rise youths the evening's come and her bright star

First Line:
Rise youths the evening's come and her bright star
Last Line:
Thy sacred influence on the nuptial bed
DMI number:
3455

73. Saw ye Jenny Nettles

First Line:
Saw ye Jenny Nettles
Last Line:
The leel and leasome gate o't
Author:
Allan Ramsay (Absolute)
DMI number:
1277

74. Shame of the court and to thy name a blot

First Line:
Shame of the court and to thy name a blot
Last Line:
And every brat I bear shall be a D---
DMI number:
2897

75. Since you will needs my heart possess

First Line:
Since you will needs my heart possess
Last Line:
Will prove just such another
Author:
Roger Boyle (Absolute)
DMI number:
23653

76. Since love hath in thine and mine eye

First Line:
Since love hath in thine and mine eye
Last Line:
Nor more immortal fires
DMI number:
43901

77. Since plays are but a kind of public feasts

First Line:
Since plays are but a kind of public feasts
Last Line:
Lest you destroy at once the poet and the player
Author:
Colley Cibber (Absolute)
DMI number:
17527

78. Suppose her virtue may this shock endure

First Line:
Suppose her virtue may this shock endure
Last Line:
When once we've lost it we return no more
DMI number:
39951

79. Some herbs there are whose deadly juices fill

First Line:
Some herbs there are whose deadly juices fill
Last Line:
And live still blessed and blessing all mankind
Author:
Mary Leapor (Absolute)
DMI number:
23743

80. Take two eyes full until they run over with tears

First Line:
Take two eyes full until they run over with tears
Last Line:
They will not hereafter need quenching in hell
DMI number:
24985

81. Talk Strephon no more of what's honest and just

First Line:
Talk Strephon no more of what's honest and just
Last Line:
Who racks on that shelf where he stranded before
DMI number:
4555

82. Tell me prithee faithless swain

First Line:
Tell me prithee faithless swain
Last Line:
You hardly can recover
DMI number:
43950

83. Sweet Jane sweet Jane

First Line:
Sweet Jane sweet Jane
Last Line:
E faith I know what I know
DMI number:
43839

84. The gay coquet though innocent

First Line:
The gay coquet though innocent
Last Line:
For any fair her choice to name
DMI number:
21997

85. The man who in his breast contains

First Line:
The man who in his breast contains
Last Line:
While jocund life is in her spring
DMI number:
23116

86. The nymph who walks the public streets

First Line:
The nymph who walks the public streets
Last Line:
By folly your own schemes undo
Author:
Edward Moore (Absolute)
DMI number:
23096

87. The prodigal son when in brothels he danced

First Line:
The prodigal son when in brothels he danced
Last Line:
Was the lot of the Prodigal son
DMI number:
35358

88. The story every Christian knows

First Line:
The story every Christian knows
Last Line:
By Sue or Celia for the future
Author:
John Bancks [Banks] (Absolute)
DMI number:
22772

89. The young Tobias was his father's joy

First Line:
The young Tobias was his father's joy
Last Line:
He penned a challenge sent it fought and fell
Author:
James Hurdis (Absolute)
DMI number:
36967

90. Thou the vile minister of those who long

First Line:
Thou the vile minister of those who long
Last Line:
My lord Ulysses was &c
DMI number:
39948

91. Thou worst estate even of the sex that's worst

First Line:
Thou worst estate even of the sex that's worst
Last Line:
Within so hated and so loved without
DMI number:
44456

92. This sad mischief by lust was wrought

First Line:
This sad mischief by lust was wrought
Last Line:
And fly from sin apace
DMI number:
38643

93. Thou art fair Fabulla rich and all's a maid

First Line:
Thou art fair Fabulla rich and all's a maid
Last Line:
Thou art neither fair a virgin nor yet rich
DMI number:
44501

94. Time flies so you and Horace sing

First Line:
Time flies so you and Horace sing
Last Line:
My lord you'll cut a higher caper
Author:
John Straight (Absolute)
DMI number:
27984

95. Tired with the business of the day

First Line:
Tired with the business of the day
Last Line:
At once to lose so good a dream and smock
Author:
Thomas Brown (Absolute)
DMI number:
3554

96. Tis a merry life we live

First Line:
Tis a merry life we live
Last Line:
When we take our measure on her
DMI number:
43979

97. To tell thee then the purport of my thoughts

First Line:
To tell thee then the purport of my thoughts
Last Line:
And conscious of your worth can never love you less
Author:
Nicholas Rowe (Absolute)
DMI number:
40525

98. Tis true Vetulia once I held you fair

First Line:
Tis true Vetulia once I held you fair
Last Line:
Men see thee as thou art a very thorn
DMI number:
22191

99. To Bath Dorinda for her health repairs

First Line:
To Bath Dorinda for her health repairs
Last Line:
And what he can't give her she's glad she is lent
DMI number:
12676

100. To you Tom Rakish Townly sends these lines

First Line:
To you Tom Rakish Townly sends these lines
Last Line:
Take my advice and never rake again
DMI number:
15276