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371.
What is there in this foolish life
First Line:
What is there in this foolish life
Last Line:
We justly call our own
DMI number:
2369
372.
What is this world
First Line:
What is this world
Last Line:
They too must cover theirs
Author:
Robert Blair (Absolute)
DMI number:
34219
373.
What means all this why all this stir to plague
First Line:
What means all this why all this stir to plague
Last Line:
With me think me but dead and lay me so
Author:
Thomas Otway (Absolute)
DMI number:
21672
374.
What means my dear Menalcas this retreat
First Line:
What means my dear Menalcas this retreat
Last Line:
Which we to Damon happy Damon owe
DMI number:
8127
375.
What trifling coil do we poor mortals keep
First Line:
What trifling coil do we poor mortals keep
Last Line:
Wake eat and drink evacuate and sleep
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
16899
376.
What trifling toil do we poor mortals keep
First Line:
What trifling toil do we poor mortals keep
Last Line:
Wake eat and drink evacuate and sleep
Author:
Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:
24849
377.
When from the body's heavy chains below
First Line:
When from the body's heavy chains below
Last Line:
Through these black clouds to Christ my sun and shield
Author:
Simon Patrick (Absolute)
DMI number:
10128
378.
What state is't we should wish labour the fields
First Line:
What state is't we should wish labour the fields
Last Line:
Ere troubles come a kind prevening fate
DMI number:
10053
379.
Whatever man he be whose heavy mind
First Line:
Whatever man he be whose heavy mind
Last Line:
But what of him became I cannot ween
Author:
Edmund Spenser (Absolute)
DMI number:
22883
380.
When black-browed night her dusky mantle spread
First Line:
When black-browed night her dusky mantle spread
Last Line:
Mix with the busy world and leave each care behind
Author:
Thomas Denton (Absolute)
DMI number:
27725
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