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251.
What should I ask my friend which best would be
First Line:
What should I ask my friend which best would be
Last Line:
He left scorned Ammon to the vulgar rout
Author:
Robert Wolseley (Confident)
DMI number:
3933
252.
What nothing earthly gives or can destroy
First Line:
What nothing earthly gives or can destroy
Last Line:
All end in love of God and love of man
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
32724
253.
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
254.
What am I how produced and for what end
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What am I how produced and for what end
Last Line:
Repair by meekness what you lost by pride
Author:
John Arbuthnot (Absolute)
DMI number:
25445
255.
Were I to choose what sort of corpse I'd wear
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Were I to choose what sort of corpse I'd wear
Last Line:
But a rare something of them altogether
Author:
Simon Patrick (Speculation)
DMI number:
4594
256.
Were I who to my cost already am
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Were I who to my cost already am
Last Line:
Is only who's a knave of the first rate
Author:
John Wilmot (Absolute)
DMI number:
4135
257.
Were I who to my cost already am
First Line:
Were I who to my cost already am
Last Line:
Man differs more from man than man from beast
Author:
John Wilmot (Absolute)
DMI number:
5665
258.
Were I who to my cost already am
First Line:
Were I who to my cost already am
Last Line:
Who is so proud of being rational
Author:
John Wilmot (Absolute)
DMI number:
18376
259.
When counterfeit Astrea's lustful rage
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When counterfeit Astrea's lustful rage
Last Line:
Which imitates the way of the angelick kind
DMI number:
43203
260.
When absent Phoebus from our sky retires
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When absent Phoebus from our sky retires
Last Line:
His influence bless but scarce can bear his light
DMI number:
2850
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