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81.
Bend not to Ayres street Tom your way
First Line:
Bend not to Ayres street Tom your way
Last Line:
Ere we can toast is gone
DMI number:
10058
82.
Beneath an oak a rustic clown
First Line:
Beneath an oak a rustic clown
Last Line:
How wouldst thou have saved thy head
DMI number:
33702
83.
Besides as Homer's gods gainst armies stand
First Line:
Besides as Homer's gods gainst armies stand
Last Line:
And will is free and can no force abide
Author:
Sir John Davies (Absolute)
DMI number:
16537
84.
Caesar like Hercules in Spain
First Line:
Caesar like Hercules in Spain
Last Line:
Nor could I then such treatment bear
DMI number:
25593
85.
But why alas do mortal men in vain
First Line:
But why alas do mortal men in vain
Last Line:
For far the greater part of men are blind
DMI number:
39569
86.
By a bold people's stubborn arms oppressed
First Line:
By a bold people's stubborn arms oppressed
Last Line:
And on an open stage unburied lye
DMI number:
42600
87.
But Aesculapius was a foreign power
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But Aesculapius was a foreign power
Last Line:
And shot behind it a long trail of light
Author:
Leonard Welsted (Confident)
DMI number:
12046
88.
But as extremes are short of ill and good
First Line:
But as extremes are short of ill and good
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Took a malicious pleasure to destroy | Tancred who fondly loved &c
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
37725
89.
But daughters sons alas thy weakness scan
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But daughters sons alas thy weakness scan
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The rest from virtue and the care of heaven
DMI number:
37703
90.
But fortune ever changing dame
First Line:
But fortune ever changing dame
Last Line:
And honest poverty's undowered charms
Author:
Philip Francis (Absolute)
DMI number:
37700
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