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711. Great wits and valours like great states

First Line:
Great wits and valours like great states
Last Line:
More foll'wers than a thief to th'gallows
Author:
Samuel Butler (Absolute)
DMI number:
5611

712. Great wits do not live many days

First Line:
Great wits do not live many days
Last Line:
But thou o laureate live for ever
DMI number:
24800

713. Great wits to madness always were allied

First Line:
Great wits to madness always were allied
Last Line:
This makes the Dean for kindred thus provide
DMI number:
24806

714. Greece justly boasts her Homer's mighty name

First Line:
Greece justly boasts her Homer's mighty name
Last Line:
For Homer Virgil Boileau we have Pope
DMI number:
12772

715. Grief should have turned thee to a stone

First Line:
Grief should have turned thee to a stone
Last Line:
Like Niobe's should be thy end
DMI number:
5091

716. Gripe's a good churchman but he keeps his bed

First Line:
Gripe's a good churchman but he keeps his bed
Last Line:
Gratis without a force of doing good
DMI number:
6096

717. Gripe-all a cunning cit a niggard elf

First Line:
Gripe-all a cunning cit a niggard elf
Last Line:
As he does all things she'll deny us nought
DMI number:
16680

718. Guilty be wise and though thou knowest the crimes

First Line:
Guilty be wise and though thou knowest the crimes
Last Line:
And person to the world ere I thy name
Author:
Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:
12404

719. Hail king of horses noble Rosinante

First Line:
Hail king of horses noble Rosinante
Last Line:
Did gallop once or else the historian fails
DMI number:
9442

720. Hail noble peer blessed gift bestowed of heaven

First Line:
Hail noble peer blessed gift bestowed of heaven
Last Line:
And wrought a change in them there's none in Chatham
DMI number:
31144