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161.
What cannot be preserved when fortune takes
First Line:
What cannot be preserved when fortune takes
Last Line:
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
17084
162.
What fortune hurts let sufferance only heal
First Line:
What fortune hurts let sufferance only heal
Last Line:
No wisdom with extremities to deal
Author:
Michael Drayton (Absolute)
DMI number:
17088
163.
What is a prodigal faith like a brush
First Line:
What is a prodigal faith like a brush
Last Line:
And they like snakes know when to cast their skin
Author:
George Wilkins (Absolute)
DMI number:
17327
164.
What is a projector I would conceive
First Line:
What is a projector I would conceive
Last Line:
According as he sees they humour it
Author:
Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:
17332
165.
What is pleasure | More than a lustful motion in the sense
First Line:
What is pleasure | More than a lustful motion in the sense
Last Line:
The pure end's lost and ruin must attend it
Author:
Thomas Nabbes [Nabbs] (Absolute)
DMI number:
17190
166.
What throngs of great impediments besiege
First Line:
What throngs of great impediments besiege
Last Line:
Unthrifty merchandise to change my gold | For breath
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:
17310
167.
What will this come to he commands us to
First Line:
What will this come to he commands us to
Last Line:
Gently put out of office ere I were forced
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
17322
168.
When knaves come to preferment they rise as
First Line:
When knaves come to preferment they rise as
Last Line:
Gallows are raised in the Low Countries one | Upon another's shoulders
Author:
John Webster (Absolute)
DMI number:
17304
169.
When power that may command so much descends
First Line:
When power that may command so much descends
Last Line:
Their bondage whom it stoops to it intends
Author:
Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:
17242
170.
When we of hopes or helps are quite bereaven
First Line:
When we of hopes or helps are quite bereaven
Last Line:
Our humble prayers have entrance into heaven
Author:
John Ford (Absolute)
DMI number:
17278
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