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1.
Leave off thy paint perfumes and youthful dress
First Line:
Leave off thy paint perfumes and youthful dress
Last Line:
Plain downright ugliness would less offend
Author:
Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:
6321
2.
Nell's teeth are white but Betty's teeth are brown
First Line:
Nell's teeth are white but Betty's teeth are brown
Last Line:
Hemmet's Nell's are but Betty's are her own
DMI number:
27422
3.
Ovid who bid the ladies laugh
First Line:
Ovid who bid the ladies laugh
Last Line:
And laugh not above once a year
Author:
Sir Charles Sedley (Confident)
DMI number:
6313
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So very fair and yet so very common
First Line:
So very fair and yet so very common
Last Line:
Would you were plainer or a better woman
DMI number:
27567
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Thou art fair we know it and maid 'tis true
First Line:
Thou art fair we know it and maid 'tis true
Last Line:
Thou art neither fair nor rich nor maid
Author:
Martial (Absolute) & Charles Cotton (Absolute)
DMI number:
40506
6.
Thy hair and beard are of a different dye
First Line:
Thy hair and beard are of a different dye
Last Line:
Shouldst thou be honest thou art a devilish cheat
DMI number:
30526
7.
Whence so much likeness so much sweetness grew
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Whence so much likeness so much sweetness grew
Last Line:
And leaving Helen stole each Ganymede
DMI number:
27665
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Your teeth from Hemmet and your hair from Bolney
First Line:
Your teeth from Hemmet and your hair from Bolney
Last Line:
Was not an eye too to be had for money
Author:
John Hoadly (Absolute)
DMI number:
27756