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31. Dignified things may I your leave implore

First Line:
Dignified things may I your leave implore
Last Line:
You're downright rogues they only knaves and fools
DMI number:
4905

32. Disgraced undone and made the nation's sport

First Line:
Disgraced undone and made the nation's sport
Last Line:
Ingloriously whilst we contend for all
DMI number:
12572

33. Distracted thus with fears presaging Rome

First Line:
Distracted thus with fears presaging Rome
Last Line:
Too much to love of arms and heat of civil rage
Author:
Lucan (Absolute) & Nicholas Rowe (Absolute)
DMI number:
4158

34. Dryden thy wit has caterwauled too long

First Line:
Dryden thy wit has caterwauled too long
Last Line:
Why then the marvel that a poet sins
DMI number:
42324

35. Freidom honour and nobillness

First Line:
Freidom honour and nobillness
Last Line:
Work for a place in paradyce | For thairin rings nae covetyce
Author:
William Dunbar (Absolute)
DMI number:
10934

36. For faults and follies London's doom shall fix

First Line:
For faults and follies London's doom shall fix
Last Line:
Shall pray to Jove to take him back again
Author:
Andrew Marvell (Speculation) & John Ayloffe (Speculation)
DMI number:
3635

37. From public noise and factious strife

First Line:
From public noise and factious strife
Last Line:
Love is a jest and vows are wind
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
32319

38. From public noise and factious strife

First Line:
From public noise and factious strife
Last Line:
Where all this time he had been hid
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
4190

39. Gentlemen | When last you were here the house was to be let

First Line:
Gentlemen | When last you were here the house was to be let
Last Line:
Though monsieur and tories and devil stand by you | Faxit Deus
DMI number:
4882

40. Go set Scotch bagpipes to the briskest notes

First Line:
Go set Scotch bagpipes to the briskest notes
Last Line:
He's grown a wolf by this and worries lambs
DMI number:
43023