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First Line:: Here lies a round woman who thought mighty odd
Last Line:: And now she's in the other she thinks it but queer
Author:: John Gay (Speculation) & Alexander Pope (Confident) & Jonathan Swift (Speculation)
DMI number:: 13476

71. How cruel are the traitors

First Line:: How cruel are the traitors
Last Line:: With boasts the theft reveals
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23698

72. How fond are men of rule and place

First Line:: How fond are men of rule and place
Last Line:: In hopes to be supreme in wit
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30188

73. How fond are men of rule and place

First Line:: How fond are men of rule and place
Last Line:: Lions and noble beasts despise
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23429

74. How many saucy airs we meet

First Line:: How many saucy airs we meet
Last Line:: Cancel at once all obligation
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33423

75. Hobnelia seated in a dreary vale

First Line:: Hobnelia seated in a dreary vale
Last Line:: Oh dear I fall adown adown adown
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 31219

76. How happy lives the man how sure to charm

First Line:: How happy lives the man how sure to charm
Last Line:: For women choose their men like silks for show
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23106

77. How vain are mortal man's endeavours

First Line:: How vain are mortal man's endeavours
Last Line:: Runs the same track it went before
Author:: John Gay (Absolute) & Jonathan Swift (Speculation)
DMI number:: 2003

78. How vain are mortal man's endeavours

First Line:: How vain are mortal man's endeavours
Last Line:: Runs the same tract it went before
Author:: John Gay (Absolute) & Jonathan Swift (Speculation)
DMI number:: 15422

79. How weak how vain is human pride

First Line:: How weak how vain is human pride
Last Line:: For different tastes please different vermin
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23349

80. How wretched is the faithful youth

First Line:: How wretched is the faithful youth
Last Line:: Whenever they sigh they sigh for gold
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 1058

81. How wretched is the wit and how forlorn

First Line:: How wretched is the wit and how forlorn
Last Line:: For women choose their men like silks for show
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30267

82. I grant corruption sways mankind

First Line:: I grant corruption sways mankind
Last Line:: Time serving tools not friends are bought
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37041

83. I hate the man who builds his name

First Line:: I hate the man who builds his name
Last Line:: To wither envy pine and fade
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23405

84. Impertinence at first is born

First Line:: Impertinence at first is born
Last Line:: Are sure to make their follies known
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33431

85. In beauty faults conspicuous grow

First Line:: In beauty faults conspicuous grow
Last Line:: And buzzing scandal fills the place
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 24907

86. In fable all things hold discourse

First Line:: In fable all things hold discourse
Last Line:: And fight ever since for pay like Swisses
Author:: John Gay (Absolute) & Jonathan Swift (Speculation)
DMI number:: 2004

87. In other men we faults can spy

First Line:: In other men we faults can spy
Last Line:: Nor for a breakfast nations kill
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23330

88. In Paris there's a race of animals

First Line:: In Paris there's a race of animals
Last Line:: All Frenchmen are of petit-maitre kind
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22485

89. In Paris there's a race of animals

First Line:: In Paris there's a race of animals
Last Line:: They by frequenting ladies toilets learn
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 29737

90. In pimps and politicians

First Line:: In pimps and politicians
Last Line:: For they are all his own
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 23722

91. Is there a bard whom genius fires

First Line:: Is there a bard whom genius fires
Last Line:: Thus envy breaks thus merit shines
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 31916

92. Is there no hope the sick man said

First Line:: Is there no hope the sick man said
Last Line:: Then why such haste so groaned and died
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25120

93. Long hast thou friend been absent from thy soil

First Line:: Long hast thou friend been absent from thy soil
Last Line:: These honours Homer had been just to thee
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 35063

94. Life is a jest and all things show it

First Line:: Life is a jest and all things show it
Last Line:: I thought so once but now I know it
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 15965

95. Life's a jest and all things show it

First Line:: Life's a jest and all things show it
Last Line:: I thought so once but now I know it
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36721

96. Like mortal man great Jove grown fond of change

First Line:: Like mortal man great Jove grown fond of change
Last Line:: A mortal scavenger she saw she loved
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22479

97. Like mortal man great Jove grown fond of change

First Line:: Like mortal man great Jove grown fond of change
Last Line:: And Whitehall echoes clean your honour's shoes
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 28493

98. Like mortal men great Jove grown fond of change

First Line:: Like mortal men great Jove grown fond of change
Last Line:: And Whitehall echoes clean your honour's shoes
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33498

99. Mother quoth she let not the poultry need

First Line:: Mother quoth she let not the poultry need
Last Line:: And peaceful like the harmless lamb she died
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22502

100. My passion is as mustard strong

First Line:: My passion is as mustard strong
Last Line:: And mute as any fish
Author:: John Gay (Absolute)
DMI number:: 686

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2. A gardener of peculiar taste

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4. A gardener of a peculiar taste

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9. A pin who long had served a beauty

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12. A sneaking cur the master's spy

13. A sneaking cur the master's spy

14. A spaniel bred with all the care

15. A stag within a yard confined

16. A prude at morn and evening prayer

17. A rake by every passion ruled

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24. A wolf with hunger fierce and bold

25. All in the Downs the fleet was moored

26. All in the downs the fleet was moored

27. All in the Downs the fleet was moored

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32. All upstarts insolent in place

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36. As Cupid in Cythera's grove

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44. Beneath the shadow of a beaver hat

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46. But now the hero of immortal birth

47. But when the swinging signs your ears offend

48. Censure will blame her breath was ever spent

49. Come night as dark as pitch surround my head

50. Conversing with your sprightly boys

51. Conversing with your sprightly boys

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53. Consider man in every sphere

54. Consider man weigh well thy frame

55. Daphne stood pensive in the shades

56. Daphnis stood pensive in the shade

57. Ere I begin I must premise

58. Ere the foundations of the world were laid

59. Did gold base wretch corrupt mankind

60. Disdain not Snow my humble verse to hear

61. Does justice or the client's sense

62. Death on a solemn night of state

63. Friendship like love is but a name

64. From ripening hay diffusive odours rise

65. Give me a son the blessing sent

66. Hail happy land whose fertile grounds

67. Hail happy land whose fertile grounds

68. Good housewives all the winter's rage despise

69. Have you a friend look round and spy

70. Here lies a round woman who thought mighty odd