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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
First Line:
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
Last Line:
Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
15676
1112.
Our restless passions like tempests on the main
First Line:
Our restless passions like tempests on the main
Last Line:
And leave us shipwrecked on a barbarous coast
Author:
Thomas Southerne (Absolute)
DMI number:
20297
1113.
Our sultan does his power from heaven derive
First Line:
Our sultan does his power from heaven derive
Last Line:
For few are gained or mended by remorse
Author:
Sir William Davenant (Absolute)
DMI number:
13979
1114.
Ourself have ever vowed to esteem
First Line:
Ourself have ever vowed to esteem
Last Line:
Who's first in worth the same be first in place
Author:
Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:
16519
1115.
Our doubts are traitors
First Line:
Our doubts are traitors
Last Line:
By fearing to attempt
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
14547
1116.
Our hopes like towering falcons aim
First Line:
Our hopes like towering falcons aim
Last Line:
And Phillis but a perjured whore
DMI number:
36170
1117.
Our life can never be securely blessed
First Line:
Our life can never be securely blessed
Last Line:
Heaven punishes the bad and proves the best
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
9593
1118.
Our life's a journey in a winter's day
First Line:
Our life's a journey in a winter's day
Last Line:
Who dies betimes has less and less to pay
DMI number:
32148
1119.
Our lord will his excuse ill understand
First Line:
Our lord will his excuse ill understand
Last Line:
That says I was a rascal by command
Author:
Robert Gould (Absolute)
DMI number:
9562
1120.
One summer eve as Nancy fair
First Line:
One summer eve as Nancy fair
Last Line:
Over set her spinning wheel
DMI number:
32868
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