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141.
Perhaps if we look in the world we may find
First Line:
Perhaps if we look in the world we may find
Last Line:
For the fault of one man not to lessen the function
DMI number:
6918
142.
Pert coxcombs pleased with buzzing round the fair
First Line:
Pert coxcombs pleased with buzzing round the fair
Last Line:
Their folly meanness indolence and pride
DMI number:
30734
143.
Say image by what sculptor's hand
First Line:
Say image by what sculptor's hand
Last Line:
I vanish unperceived away
DMI number:
33631
144.
Rank lies repeated oft and oft detected
First Line:
Rank lies repeated oft and oft detected
Last Line:
Makes truth itself for a rank lie suspected
DMI number:
30739
145.
Receive my counsel and securely move
First Line:
Receive my counsel and securely move
Last Line:
Our future offspring and our wives are known
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
30257
146.
Shining heaps of massy plate
First Line:
Shining heaps of massy plate
Last Line:
Is in truth as rich as he
DMI number:
37060
147.
Short syne there was a wretched miser
First Line:
Short syne there was a wretched miser
Last Line:
What use his friends make of his gear
Author:
Allan Ramsay (Absolute)
DMI number:
15366
148.
Shall clammy clay shrowd such a gallant gloze
First Line:
Shall clammy clay shrowd such a gallant gloze
Last Line:
That thou mayst well account how it is spent
Author:
Thomas Proctor (Absolute)
DMI number:
49201
149.
Sir I have lived a courtier all my days
First Line:
Sir I have lived a courtier all my days
Last Line:
A noble fool was never in a fault
DMI number:
30215
150.
Soft soothing words don't always friendly prove
First Line:
Soft soothing words don't always friendly prove
Last Line:
Are but the varnish to some base design
Author:
Edmund Arwaker (Confident)
DMI number:
30378
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