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81.
Fate rules us then to fate give way
First Line:
Fate rules us then to fate give way
Last Line:
What have you against this to say
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
35384
82.
Firm is the cause your arguments maintain
First Line:
Firm is the cause your arguments maintain
Last Line:
My all shall be employed though far far short of yours
Author:
Matthew Concanen (Absolute)
DMI number:
11357
83.
Exhausted quite with prisons racks and death
First Line:
Exhausted quite with prisons racks and death
Last Line:
Probatum est and never fails with me
Author:
David Garrick (Absolute)
DMI number:
37950
84.
Filled with the noisome folly of the age
First Line:
Filled with the noisome folly of the age
Last Line:
Unthinking Charles ruled by unthinking thee
Author:
John Wilmot (Speculation) & Charles Sackville (Speculation)
DMI number:
5441
85.
Fair dames if puppets may presume to sue
First Line:
Fair dames if puppets may presume to sue
Last Line:
That though his humble friends we never eat
DMI number:
33438
86.
For form's sake I pray
First Line:
For form's sake I pray
Last Line:
Can laugh at all truths in the Bible
DMI number:
36049
87.
For God's sake tell me what bold confidence
First Line:
For God's sake tell me what bold confidence
Last Line:
And by strange luck may make a shift to live
DMI number:
43394
88.
For him thou oft hast bid the world attend
First Line:
For him thou oft hast bid the world attend
Last Line:
And pleased to escape from flattery to wit
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
32747
89.
Flavia's a wit has too much sense to pray
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Flavia's a wit has too much sense to pray
Last Line:
And die of nothing but a rage to live
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
30966
90.
From the Elysian Fields I sing
First Line:
From the Elysian Fields I sing
Last Line:
Then every grace will shine in you
Author:
Mary Chandler (Absolute)
DMI number:
18305
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