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191.
So dying men receive vain comforts
First Line:
So dying men receive vain comforts
Last Line:
Kindness but constraint
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:
13948
192.
Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow
First Line:
Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow
Last Line:
To heaven all reason's sight in gazing spends
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:
13859
193.
Still you recoil like the chaste indian plant
First Line:
Still you recoil like the chaste indian plant
Last Line:
Approach of man
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:
16646
194.
Suppose | She be a virgin alas poor green thing what
First Line:
Suppose | She be a virgin alas poor green thing what
Last Line:
From an aged wall and swallow it most greedily
DMI number:
41505
195.
Such days of joy before the marriage day
First Line:
Such days of joy before the marriage day
Last Line:
For laws by force customs by pleasure last
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:
14387
196.
Some princes that they may the rumour gain
First Line:
Some princes that they may the rumour gain
Last Line:
As all with joy walk out to see the spring
DMI number:
40833
197.
Temperate in what does needy life preserve
First Line:
Temperate in what does needy life preserve
Last Line:
Ready as pilots waked with sudden winds
DMI number:
41248
198.
Th' ambitious maid at scornful distance stood
First Line:
Th' ambitious maid at scornful distance stood
Last Line:
Ambition is the mind's immodesty
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:
13519
199.
The ambitious statesman not himself admires
First Line:
The ambitious statesman not himself admires
Last Line:
Whom even the proud envy the humble fear
DMI number:
41200
200.
Surely one
First Line:
Surely one
Last Line:
Only his virtue is he will not outlast it
DMI number:
40717
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