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351.
What needs a champion to assert your throne
First Line:
What needs a champion to assert your throne
Last Line:
I will start a hero and maintain your right
DMI number:
29664
352.
What path list you to tread what trade will you assay
First Line:
What path list you to tread what trade will you assay
Last Line:
Choose then the lesser of these two aye life or soon to die
Author:
Nicholas Grimald (Absolute)
DMI number:
9089
353.
Well thou dost not know the estimation
First Line:
Well thou dost not know the estimation
Last Line:
And each of these worth a king's ransom
Author:
Shackerley Marmion (Absolute)
DMI number:
13554
354.
What has this bugbear death to frighten man
First Line:
What has this bugbear death to frighten man
Last Line:
As he who died a thousand years ago
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
3914
355.
When Clarendon had discerned beforehand
First Line:
When Clarendon had discerned beforehand
Last Line:
He comes to be roasted next St James's fair
Author:
Andrew Marvell (Confident)
DMI number:
3680
356.
When cruel Nero over Rome bore sway
First Line:
When cruel Nero over Rome bore sway
Last Line:
And this religion be that was a crime before
DMI number:
7474
357.
When Dido feasted first the wandring Trojan knight
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When Dido feasted first the wandring Trojan knight
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For they have their two poles directly t'one to the t'other
Author:
Sir Thomas Wyatt (Absolute)
DMI number:
8860
358.
When earth yawned wide to swallow ancient Rome
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When earth yawned wide to swallow ancient Rome
Last Line:
A martyr's sufferings and a martyr's shame
DMI number:
38069
359.
What to begin would have been madness thought
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What to begin would have been madness thought
Last Line:
Preserved the mighty work that now we see
Author:
Richard Duke (Absolute)
DMI number:
3779
360.
What tongue can such barbarities record
First Line:
What tongue can such barbarities record
Last Line:
And in the loathed embraces died away
Author:
Christopher Pitt (Absolute)
DMI number:
31664
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