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11. Our god and soldiers we alike adore

First Line:: Our god and soldiers we alike adore
Last Line:: Our god's forgotten and our soldiers slighted
Author:: Francis Quarles (Absolute)
DMI number:: 26993

12. Our life is nothing but a winter's day

First Line:: Our life is nothing but a winter's day
Last Line:: Who dies betimes has less and less to pay
Author:: Francis Quarles (Absolute)
DMI number:: 16110

13. Plausus would thrive and therefore does obey

First Line:: Plausus would thrive and therefore does obey
Last Line:: Plausus will never pray without a cause
Author:: Francis Quarles (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17065

14. 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:: John Cleveland (Speculation) & John Dryden (Absolute) & James Shirley (Speculation) & W. S. (Speculation) & Francis Quarles (Speculation) & Robert Gould (Speculation)
DMI number:: 6926

15. Some faiths are like those mills that cannot grind

First Line:: Some faiths are like those mills that cannot grind
Last Line:: Their corn unless they work against the wind
Author:: Francis Quarles (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14681

16. Some raw divines no sooner are espoused

First Line:: Some raw divines no sooner are espoused
Last Line:: They Pharoah like are drowned both horse and foot
Author:: Francis Quarles (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13920

17. Temporal blessings heaven doth often share

First Line:: Temporal blessings heaven doth often share
Last Line:: Unto the wicked at the good man's prayer
Author:: Francis Quarles (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17279

18. Th' oft shaken tree grows faster at the root

First Line:: Th' oft shaken tree grows faster at the root
Last Line:: And faith's most firm that's sometimes urged with doubt
Author:: Francis Quarles (Absolute)
DMI number:: 14682

19. The chaste Sempronia knows not how to escape

First Line:: The chaste Sempronia knows not how to escape
Last Line:: Is not Sempronia left at sex and seven
Author:: Francis Quarles (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17067

20. The shaken tree grows faster at the root

First Line:: The shaken tree grows faster at the root
Last Line:: And love grows firmer from some blasts of doubt
Author:: Francis Quarles (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27822