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1211.
Save not the wicked from their just desert
First Line:
Save not the wicked from their just desert
Last Line:
Of being jointly in their crimes undone
DMI number:
30357
1212.
Saw not thy seed in sandilands
First Line:
Saw not thy seed in sandilands
Last Line:
For galling of thy geir
Author:
Sir David Lyndsay [Lindsay] (Speculation)
DMI number:
28100
1213.
Saw not thy seid on Sandylands
First Line:
Saw not thy seid on Sandylands
Last Line:
For hurting of thy geir
DMI number:
10882
1214.
Reader a miss I shall present thee here
First Line:
Reader a miss I shall present thee here
Last Line:
And thoroughly peruse this pretty book
DMI number:
43292
1215.
Reader of these crude lines whoever you are
First Line:
Reader of these crude lines whoever you are
Last Line:
None will put up who have a mind to live
DMI number:
33548
1216.
Shun mad vain glorious boasts and be thy tongue
First Line:
Shun mad vain glorious boasts and be thy tongue
Last Line:
With modesty that useful beauty hung
DMI number:
30356
1217.
Silvia with the wheel I send
First Line:
Silvia with the wheel I send
Last Line:
Bliss of body and of mind
DMI number:
32363
1218.
Since Aesop's days who first inspired
First Line:
Since Aesop's days who first inspired
Last Line:
And rears her modest head to grace the lawns again
DMI number:
36672
1219.
Since all earth's pleasures are so short and small
First Line:
Since all earth's pleasures are so short and small
Last Line:
The way to enjoy them is to abjure them all
Author:
George Chapman (Absolute)
DMI number:
17176
1220.
Scorn no man's love though of a mean degree
First Line:
Scorn no man's love though of a mean degree
Last Line:
The meanest tool that he may chance to use
Author:
George Herbert (Absolute)
DMI number:
14576
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