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31. Oft wisdom is to sloth too great a slave

First Line:: Oft wisdom is to sloth too great a slave
Last Line:: None are so busy as the fool and knave
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 9563

32. Our lord will his excuse ill understand

First Line:: Our lord will his excuse ill understand
Last Line:: That says I was a rascal by command
Author:: Robert Gould (Absolute)
DMI number:: 9562

33. On my hard fate as late I pondering lay

First Line:: On my hard fate as late I pondering lay
Last Line:: And waking then I'll sing my patron's praise
Author:: Robert Gould (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4570

34. Princes says Dryden shine not on their thrones

First Line:: Princes says Dryden shine not on their thrones
Last Line:: If that your preaching e'nt thus dignified
Author:: Aphra Behn (Speculation) & Charles Hopkins (Speculation) & Sir Thomas Higgons (Speculation) & Edmund Arwaker (Speculation) & Fran. Barnard (Speculation) & Thomas Rymer (Speculation) & William Shippen (Speculation) & Robert Gould (Speculation) & Bevil Higgons (Speculation) & Benjamin Hawkshaw (Speculation) & Francis Manning (Absolute) & John Dunton (Speculation) & George Granville (Speculation)
DMI number:: 6878

35. Sam Treacher's dead dear Sam has bid good night

First Line:: Sam Treacher's dead dear Sam has bid good night
Last Line:: For thou shalt make it live because it sings of thee
Author:: W. S. (Speculation) & John Dryden (Absolute) & James Shirley (Speculation) & Robert Gould (Speculation) & John Cleveland (Speculation) & Francis Quarles (Speculation)
DMI number:: 6926

36. She left us young yet her short span of life

First Line:: She left us young yet her short span of life
Last Line:: But who will leave us such a theme for praise
Author:: Robert Gould (Absolute)
DMI number:: 15798

37. So firmly she all sacred truth believed

First Line:: So firmly she all sacred truth believed
Last Line:: And dying virgins only are as chaste
Author:: Robert Gould (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6866

38. Since first by heaven's decree the world began

First Line:: Since first by heaven's decree the world began
Last Line:: Of mounted fops that are - the devil's jest
Author:: Thomas D'Urfey (Speculation) & Richard Flecknoe (Speculation) & John Dryden (Absolute) & Robert Gould (Speculation) & Thomas Brown (Speculation)
DMI number:: 6935

39. The heart in public views we darkly find

First Line:: The heart in public views we darkly find
Last Line:: Tis converse gives the image of the mind
Author:: Robert Gould (Absolute)
DMI number:: 9558

40. Then happy that man thrice happy he

First Line:: Then happy that man thrice happy he
Last Line:: Our Sodom had not burnt had ten such Lots been there
Author:: Robert Gould (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6936

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31. Oft wisdom is to sloth too great a slave

32. Our lord will his excuse ill understand

33. On my hard fate as late I pondering lay

34. Princes says Dryden shine not on their thrones

35. Sam Treacher's dead dear Sam has bid good night

36. She left us young yet her short span of life

37. So firmly she all sacred truth believed

38. Since first by heaven's decree the world began

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40. Then happy that man thrice happy he