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131.
How false are men both in their heads and hearts
First Line:
How false are men both in their heads and hearts
Last Line:
Look round the world what shall we find sincere
Author:
John Crowne (Absolute)
DMI number:
14712
132.
How fleeting is honour who'd strive to be great
First Line:
How fleeting is honour who'd strive to be great
Last Line:
Then whip goes the seal and adieu my Lord K----r
DMI number:
5885
133.
How long shall fortune faile me nowe
First Line:
How long shall fortune faile me nowe
Last Line:
Who ever was a gallant wight
DMI number:
37282
134.
His grace will game to White's a bull be led
First Line:
His grace will game to White's a bull be led
Last Line:
And silent sells a king or buys a queen
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
22425
135.
His holiness has three grand friends
First Line:
His holiness has three grand friends
Last Line:
It rules both church and state
Author:
Stephen College (Confident)
DMI number:
4872
136.
Honest and poor faithful in word and thought
First Line:
Honest and poor faithful in word and thought
Last Line:
But faith go back and keep you where you were
DMI number:
28349
137.
How full of hidden ambiguities
First Line:
How full of hidden ambiguities
Last Line:
Or freed from both or rent up root and all
Author:
William Heminges [Heming] (Absolute)
DMI number:
17232
138.
How gross your avarice eating up whole families
First Line:
How gross your avarice eating up whole families
Last Line:
Like clocks to strike at the just hour you please
Author:
James Shirley (Absolute)
DMI number:
14743
139.
Here the cold bones of tattling Pius lie
First Line:
Here the cold bones of tattling Pius lie
Last Line:
But masked with seeming virtue each lewd fact
DMI number:
29488
140.
Here you see without delusion
First Line:
Here you see without delusion
Last Line:
The stocks above they should be in sir
DMI number:
32980
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