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1. As heroes states and kingdoms rise and fall

First Line:: As heroes states and kingdoms rise and fall
Last Line:: At least we're vanquished in a noble cause
Author:: David Garrick (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37513

2. By this repeated act of grace we see

First Line:: By this repeated act of grace we see
Last Line:: The new creation of a gracious queen
Author:: William Congreve (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6613

3. Exhausted quite with prisons racks and death

First Line:: Exhausted quite with prisons racks and death
Last Line:: Probatum est and never fails with me
Author:: David Garrick (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37950

4. Prologues like prayers imploring for success

First Line:: Prologues like prayers imploring for success
Last Line:: Beauty to youth doth seldom prove unkind
DMI number:: 38329

5. Sure there's a dearth of wit in this dull town

First Line:: Sure there's a dearth of wit in this dull town
Last Line:: When you should draw the sword you draw the guinea
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 35793

6. The famed Italian muse whose rhymes advance

First Line:: The famed Italian muse whose rhymes advance
Last Line:: Is forced to turn his satire into praise
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4707

7. The pamphleteers their venom daily spit

First Line:: The pamphleteers their venom daily spit
Last Line:: They live by treason and we starve by wit
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 10482

8. This night let busy man no pleasure spare

First Line:: This night let busy man no pleasure spare
Last Line:: To make wit honest is no easy task
DMI number:: 38331

9. Wit bears so thin a crop this duller age

First Line:: Wit bears so thin a crop this duller age
Last Line:: For time that makes new fools may mend his hand
Author:: Colley Cibber (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17525

10. Wit has of late took up a trick t'appear

First Line:: Wit has of late took up a trick t'appear
Last Line:: For love will ever make the triumph yours
Author:: John Wilmot (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4145