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1. A dwarf upon a pismires back

First Line:
A dwarf upon a pismires back
Last Line:
What Phaeton had a fall
DMI number:
43766

2. A fool a wise man riding once espied

First Line:
A fool a wise man riding once espied
Last Line:
Themselves not horse appoint where they must lie
Author:
John Heywood (Absolute)
DMI number:
41938

3. A thousand martyrs I have made

First Line:
A thousand martyrs I have made
Last Line:
Despise the fools that whine for love
DMI number:
43588

4. Ah tell me why deluded sex thus we

First Line:
Ah tell me why deluded sex thus we
Last Line:
Will owe our charms of wit of parts and poetry
DMI number:
43034

5. After those revered papers whose souls is

First Line:
After those revered papers whose souls is
Last Line:
In length and ease are alike every where
DMI number:
43358

6. An invasion from Dutchland is all the discourse

First Line:
An invasion from Dutchland is all the discourse
Last Line:
On condition that you may depart with your lives
DMI number:
44330

7. As mother cook went t'other day

First Line:
As mother cook went t'other day
Last Line:
And squitter squatter guilt his bays
DMI number:
44339

8. Caelia tho your conquering eyes

First Line:
Caelia tho your conquering eyes
Last Line:
The surer conquest gain
DMI number:
44593

9. Come give me the wench that is mellow

First Line:
Come give me the wench that is mellow
Last Line:
The horn the pot or the placket
DMI number:
44259

10. Come hither sweet melancholy

First Line:
Come hither sweet melancholy
Last Line:
Then too late thou wilt be sorry
DMI number:
43985

11. Come all you young lovers and listen to me

First Line:
Come all you young lovers and listen to me
Last Line:
Will meet you half way with her smock in her teeth
DMI number:
44440

12. Diogenes was merry in his tub

First Line:
Diogenes was merry in his tub
Last Line:
For the more we laugh the more we may
Author:
John Playford (Absolute)
DMI number:
44193

13. Disputes daily arise and errors grow bolder

First Line:
Disputes daily arise and errors grow bolder
Last Line:
Tis he is the man ma-the-ma-ti-cal
DMI number:
43930

14. Farewell ye gilded follies pleasing troubles

First Line:
Farewell ye gilded follies pleasing troubles
Last Line:
I'll never look for it but in heaven again
DMI number:
43750

15. Give us music and wine

First Line:
Give us music and wine
Last Line:
And blessed is he that enjoys them
DMI number:
44340

16. 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

17. Full twenty times over and twenty to that

First Line:
Full twenty times over and twenty to that
Last Line:
To water as thou dost or let them choose
DMI number:
43340

18. Good gaffer stand aloof

First Line:
Good gaffer stand aloof
Last Line:
You leisure to tipple and be as drunk as a lord
DMI number:
43341

19. Good sir what makes you strut I pray whence come ye

First Line:
Good sir what makes you strut I pray whence come ye
Last Line:
That wisdom dwells not with conceitedness
DMI number:
44402

20. He's a fool in his heart that takes any care

First Line:
He's a fool in his heart that takes any care
Last Line:
Say the word what it will I will never give over
DMI number:
44304

21. Hast thou at last that mother church too quitted

First Line:
Hast thou at last that mother church too quitted
Last Line:
And have no hope of heaven but his word
DMI number:
44337

22. Hast thou no friend so kind to let thee know

First Line:
Hast thou no friend so kind to let thee know
Last Line:
I'd wipe --- with his works piss on their author
DMI number:
44338

23. He that's devoted to the glass

First Line:
He that's devoted to the glass
Last Line:
At his own price is made an ass
DMI number:
43803

24. He that's wise and wary

First Line:
He that's wise and wary
Last Line:
Is to make the pipeless then the barrel
DMI number:
44215

25. He that is greedy of the grape

First Line:
He that is greedy of the grape
Last Line:
And changes habit with an ape
DMI number:
43804

26. Hence idle fancies perplex me no more

First Line:
Hence idle fancies perplex me no more
Last Line:
Unless it be those joys that are placed above
DMI number:
42661

27. Here Hobson the merry Londoner does lie

First Line:
Here Hobson the merry Londoner does lie
Last Line:
He thereupon took pet and so did die
DMI number:
43783

28. Here lies the first and last edition

First Line:
Here lies the first and last edition
Last Line:
That he was hanged at Charing-Cross
DMI number:
43782

29. Here's a health to the man in the moon

First Line:
Here's a health to the man in the moon
Last Line:
Whilst mad men and fools sit and grieve
DMI number:
44295

30. How weak is man that would himself persuade

First Line:
How weak is man that would himself persuade
Last Line:
Which Israel's wisest prince describes of old
DMI number:
43273

31. I courted a lass my folly

First Line:
I courted a lass my folly
Last Line:
That Dolly went home complaining
DMI number:
43983

32. I ask not why Astrea fled away

First Line:
I ask not why Astrea fled away
Last Line:
And can with borrowed beams be always bright
DMI number:
42906

33. Love is a blinded lad an angry boy

First Line:
Love is a blinded lad an angry boy
Last Line:
A private hell a very sea of lust
DMI number:
44090

34. My muse denies

First Line:
My muse denies
Last Line:
Diseased of the fashions
DMI number:
43997

35. My love is full of noble pride

First Line:
My love is full of noble pride
Last Line:
Most miserable wise
DMI number:
44136

36. I sing of no heresy turk or of tartar

First Line:
I sing of no heresy turk or of tartar
Last Line:
Than thus to be tossed in a blanket and drubbed
DMI number:
44331

37. I wonder what the grave and wise

First Line:
I wonder what the grave and wise
Last Line:
Pronounc'd all vanity chose it for the best
DMI number:
44453

38. If all the appointed days of man were fair

First Line:
If all the appointed days of man were fair
Last Line:
Which tears to comforts do convert
DMI number:
43270

39. If the season proves unkind

First Line:
If the season proves unkind
Last Line:
But I think they do call it a---Coney
DMI number:
44058

40. Let fools great Cupid's yoke disdain

First Line:
Let fools great Cupid's yoke disdain
Last Line:
And wounds themselves have made discover
DMI number:
44207

41. Malt is the grain by which a fox we gain

First Line:
Malt is the grain by which a fox we gain
Last Line:
Then sit and tipple it will your senses cripple
DMI number:
43799

42. Mambrino having spent all his estate

First Line:
Mambrino having spent all his estate
Last Line:
We part as wise as when we came together
DMI number:
43761

43. Mysus and Mopsa hardly can agree

First Line:
Mysus and Mopsa hardly can agree
Last Line:
Could not be ended till both were one wife
DMI number:
43771

44. Nay I confess I should despise

First Line:
Nay I confess I should despise
Last Line:
Just blossom forth then fade and die
DMI number:
43386

45. Nay persuade not I've swore

First Line:
Nay persuade not I've swore
Last Line:
We enrich them as fast as our fathers did grind 'em
DMI number:
44170

46. Now he on foolish love it not befits

First Line:
Now he on foolish love it not befits
Last Line:
To marry is to make it ten times worse
DMI number:
43834

47. Not wise enough to rule a state

First Line:
Not wise enough to rule a state
Last Line:
I have a mistress to my mind
DMI number:
44257

48. O faithless world and thy more faithless part

First Line:
O faithless world and thy more faithless part
Last Line:
To know that love lodged in a womans breast is but a guest
DMI number:
43360

49. Of all the crafts that I do know

First Line:
Of all the crafts that I do know
Last Line:
And they lived full merrily
DMI number:
42914

50. On yonder hill a beacon stands

First Line:
On yonder hill a beacon stands
Last Line:
Duke Humphrey dined in Pauls
DMI number:
43823

51. Pompey was a mad man a mad man

First Line:
Pompey was a mad man a mad man
Last Line:
And the devil himself shan't be madder than we
DMI number:
44036

52. 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

53. Poor fool you now are made a harlot's prize

First Line:
Poor fool you now are made a harlot's prize
Last Line:
And bravely revel in the spoils of fools
DMI number:
44358

54. Poor Lycidus for shame arise

First Line:
Poor Lycidus for shame arise
Last Line:
While thou the cully art
DMI number:
43589

55. Say all you judging wise

First Line:
Say all you judging wise
Last Line:
Tis beauty is alone superlative
DMI number:
43614

56. She that will eat her breakfast in her bed

First Line:
She that will eat her breakfast in her bed
Last Line:
But what a case is he in that shall have her
Author:
Matthew Mainwaring (Absolute)
DMI number:
43128

57. Tell me sage Will thou that the town around

First Line:
Tell me sage Will thou that the town around
Last Line:
That thing's a beau why then that beau's a beast
DMI number:
42605

58. Tell me where is fancy bred

First Line:
Tell me where is fancy bred
Last Line:
Ding dong bell ding dong bell
DMI number:
43935

59. The brainsick race that wanton youth ensues

First Line:
The brainsick race that wanton youth ensues
Last Line:
To learn experience at the last than never
Author:
John Lyly (Absolute)
DMI number:
44742

60. The plot is vanished like to a bashful sprite

First Line:
The plot is vanished like to a bashful sprite
Last Line:
Whilst perjured villains have what is their due
DMI number:
43153

61. The safest way of life is neither

First Line:
The safest way of life is neither
Last Line:
Thy swelling sails
Author:
Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:
42084

62. The silver swan who having had no note

First Line:
The silver swan who having had no note
Last Line:
More geese then swans now live more fools then wise
DMI number:
43911

63. There was an invisible fox by chance

First Line:
There was an invisible fox by chance
Last Line:
Invisible all together
DMI number:
44243

64. Thou writest so seldom that there does appear

First Line:
Thou writest so seldom that there does appear
Last Line:
Which no proportion with thy vices bear
Author:
Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:
42181

65. Thou bailiff of my woods and pleasant field

First Line:
Thou bailiff of my woods and pleasant field
Last Line:
Let all say I use well the art they know
Author:
Robert Thompson (Confident)
DMI number:
42204

66. Thus reasoned thy said he but not aright

First Line:
Thus reasoned thy said he but not aright
Last Line:
Shall fall to him and his appointed place
DMI number:
43274

67. Tis strange that whatever noodle akes

First Line:
Tis strange that whatever noodle akes
Last Line:
By moderns styled a conventicle
DMI number:
44346

68. To be of high birth and of worthy fame

First Line:
To be of high birth and of worthy fame
Last Line:
Let his descent be mean his worth's the more
DMI number:
42004

69. We to our selves most partial judges be

First Line:
We to our selves most partial judges be
Last Line:
But when we judge ourselves the case is altered
DMI number:
43769

70. What can the gaudy world afford

First Line:
What can the gaudy world afford
Last Line:
And an unfading treasure
DMI number:
44444

71. What daring female is it who thus complains

First Line:
What daring female is it who thus complains
Last Line:
Talked of by all but seen by none
DMI number:
43035

72. What an ass is he that waits a woman's leisure

First Line:
What an ass is he that waits a woman's leisure
Last Line:
Curses lascivious itches so the critics hold
DMI number:
44230

73. What irreligious courses have you run

First Line:
What irreligious courses have you run
Last Line:
And both in clammy joys and slumber quit the fray
DMI number:
44345

74. When Arthur first in court began

First Line:
When Arthur first in court began
Last Line:
But he pulled her out by the tail
DMI number:
44195

75. When Paris Oenon hoped to forsake

First Line:
When Paris Oenon hoped to forsake
Last Line:
That so this Paris Oenon may sustain
DMI number:
44529

76. When I see the young men play

First Line:
When I see the young men play
Last Line:
And be mad as well as you
Author:
Thomas Stanley (Absolute)
DMI number:
44008

77. Whilst my souls eye beheld no light

First Line:
Whilst my souls eye beheld no light
Last Line:
Would with thee live and for thee die
DMI number:
43367

78. Whilst Saturn reigned with his old golden face

First Line:
Whilst Saturn reigned with his old golden face
Last Line:
Strikes rogues above all other punishment
DMI number:
42700

79. Wisdom directs when justice dictates right

First Line:
Wisdom directs when justice dictates right
Last Line:
With wisdom justice fortitude and fame
DMI number:
42970

80. Would you a constant fortune keep

First Line:
Would you a constant fortune keep
Last Line:
The wind may turn about
Author:
Samuel Woodford (Absolute)
DMI number:
42085