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1.
Bestrid an ant a pigmy great and tall
First Line:
Bestrid an ant a pigmy great and tall
Last Line:
For thus I fall and thus fell Phaeton
Author:
Thomas Sprat (Absolute)
DMI number:
6501
2.
Of late along the streets I musing walked
First Line:
Of late along the streets I musing walked
Last Line:
Of lawyers was relief against his tongue
Author:
Thomas Sprat (Confident)
DMI number:
42177
3.
The play is at an end but where's the plot
First Line:
The play is at an end but where's the plot
Last Line:
Pray let this prove a year of prose and sense
Author:
George Villiers (Absolute) & Samuel Butler (Speculation) & Martin Clifford (Speculation) & Thomas Sprat (Speculation)
DMI number:
35882
4.
This this the sum of all my wishes was
First Line:
This this the sum of all my wishes was
Last Line:
And with a mouse's argument confutes
Author:
Thomas Sprat (Confident)
DMI number:
42185
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We might well call this short mock-play of ours
First Line:
We might well call this short mock-play of ours
Last Line:
Tis I John Lacy have reformed your stage
Author:
George Villiers (Absolute) & Samuel Butler (Speculation) & Martin Clifford (Speculation) & Thomas Sprat (Speculation)
DMI number:
17529
6.
While sacred bard far worlds thy works proclaim
First Line:
While sacred bard far worlds thy works proclaim
Last Line:
May Cowley's dust this marble shrine defend
DMI number:
33934
7.
Your book our old knight errants fame revives
First Line:
Your book our old knight errants fame revives
Last Line:
But yours at least will build half Paul's churchyard
Author:
Thomas Sprat (Absolute)
DMI number:
4786