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1731.
We to the sea this world may well compare
First Line:
We to the sea this world may well compare
Last Line:
Let my hopes fail me if thy hopes miscarry
Author:
George Wither (Absolute)
DMI number:
10196
1732.
Virtue's so suited to our happiness
First Line:
Virtue's so suited to our happiness
Last Line:
Vice is the foul disease infects the whole
Author:
Daniel Defoe (Absolute)
DMI number:
30282
1733.
Versed in the woes and vanities of life
First Line:
Versed in the woes and vanities of life
Last Line:
To dissipate their days in quest of joy
Author:
John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:
30716
1734.
Vex not thy self and her vain man since all
First Line:
Vex not thy self and her vain man since all
Last Line:
Live high not pay and never run in debt
Author:
Sir Charles Sedley (Absolute)
DMI number:
6758
1735.
View not with envy fretting in thy breast
First Line:
View not with envy fretting in thy breast
Last Line:
I never saw constrained to beg their bread
Author:
Thomas Fitzgerald (Absolute)
DMI number:
16142
1736.
Virgins think on it and consider
First Line:
Virgins think on it and consider
Last Line:
As the ring for tilting lance
DMI number:
10699
1737.
Virtue dear friend needs no defence
First Line:
Virtue dear friend needs no defence
Last Line:
And dare all heat but that in Celia's eyes
Author:
Wentworth Dillon (Absolute)
DMI number:
3694
1738.
Virtue dear friend needs no defence
First Line:
Virtue dear friend needs no defence
Last Line:
And dare all heat but that of Celia's eyes
Author:
Wentworth Dillon (Absolute)
DMI number:
895
1739.
Virtue despised the beauty views her face
First Line:
Virtue despised the beauty views her face
Last Line:
Mourns she never sought the beauty of the mind
DMI number:
30742
1740.
Virtue is either lame or not at all
First Line:
Virtue is either lame or not at all
Last Line:
When it bars up the way to men's petitions
Author:
John Fletcher (Absolute)
DMI number:
17163
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