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371. We to our selves may all our wishes grant

First Line:
We to our selves may all our wishes grant
Last Line:
For nothing coveting we nothing want
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
5515

372. Wake wake Quevira our soft rest must cease

First Line:
Wake wake Quevira our soft rest must cease
Last Line:
And we shall judge both best by our success
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute) & Sir Robert Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
35750

373. Want is a bitter and a hateful good

First Line:
Want is a bitter and a hateful good
Last Line:
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
30944

374. Want is a bitter but a wholesome good

First Line:
Want is a bitter but a wholesome good
Last Line:
And wit in rags is turned to ridicule
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
24654

375. We act by fits and starts like drowning men

First Line:
We act by fits and starts like drowning men
Last Line:
The satisfaction of a gentleman
Author:
John Dryden (Confident)
DMI number:
4032

376. Well sounding verses are the charms we use

First Line:
Well sounding verses are the charms we use
Last Line:
But they move more in lofty numbers told
Author:
Edmund Waller (Absolute)
DMI number:
9551

377. Well then the promised hour is come at last

First Line:
Well then the promised hour is come at last
Last Line:
You merit more nor could my love do less
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
4704

378. What Nostradame with all his art can guess

First Line:
What Nostradame with all his art can guess
Last Line:
Under a female regency may rise
Author:
John Dryden (Confident)
DMI number:
6118

379. What can be sweeter than our native home

First Line:
What can be sweeter than our native home
Last Line:
Like Hercules envenomed shirts we wear
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
5646

380. What farther need of words our right to scan

First Line:
What farther need of words our right to scan
Last Line:
And eloquence over brutal force prevailed
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
28160