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1. A poor spirit

First Line:: A poor spirit
Last Line:: Is poorer than a poor purse
Author:: Cyril Tourneur (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17235

2. I despise | These short and empty pleasures and how low

First Line:: I despise | These short and empty pleasures and how low
Last Line:: Only by sense those creatures which have least | Of reason most enjoy
Author:: Sir John Denham (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17196

3. In this plenty | And fat of peace your young men never were trained

First Line:: In this plenty | And fat of peace your young men never were trained
Last Line:: Nor change feared or expected
Author:: Philip Massinger (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17116

4. Now all's peace no danger now what follows

First Line:: Now all's peace no danger now what follows
Last Line:: At getting money which no wise man ever | Fed his desires with
Author:: George Chapman (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17111

5. O known evil

First Line:: O known evil
Last Line:: Rich fly the poor as good men shun the devil
Author:: Thomas Heywood (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17233

6. Poor men are born to wrongs low are their ranks

First Line:: Poor men are born to wrongs low are their ranks
Last Line:: The more they're trod on the more they must give thanks
Author:: Robert Daborne (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17238

7. Poverty thou bane of chastity

First Line:: Poverty thou bane of chastity
Last Line:: To find a woman chaste that's poor and fair
Author:: Thomas Dekker (Absolute) & John Webster (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17234

8. Power doth what likes in her inferiors move

First Line:: Power doth what likes in her inferiors move
Last Line:: As we are sessed so pay we hate or love
Author:: Fulke Greville (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17246

9. Pox of peace

First Line:: Pox of peace
Last Line:: Thieves and bastards only
Author:: John Fletcher (Absolute) & Francis Beaumont (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17115

10. Surfeited with fulsome ease and wealth

First Line:: Surfeited with fulsome ease and wealth
Last Line:: Our pilots all their skill for want of storms
Author:: John Crowne (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17147