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641.
Hence the lean gloom that melancholy wears
First Line:
Hence the lean gloom that melancholy wears
Last Line:
Betrays each fretful motion of the mind
Author:
John Armstrong (Absolute)
DMI number:
30708
642.
Hence vain attempter of the good and great
First Line:
Hence vain attempter of the good and great
Last Line:
Ripens the dullest earth and warms it into gold
DMI number:
4791
643.
Henceforth I learn that to obey is best
First Line:
Henceforth I learn that to obey is best
Last Line:
Acknowledge my redeemer ever blest
Author:
John Milton (Absolute)
DMI number:
33346
644.
Henceforth I'll strive to fly the sight of pleasure
First Line:
Henceforth I'll strive to fly the sight of pleasure
Last Line:
From the sweet tunes of the Sicilian shore
Author:
Shackerley Marmion (Absolute)
DMI number:
17193
645.
Henceforth sir be everybody's king
First Line:
Henceforth sir be everybody's king
Last Line:
And from your wise breast breathe it as your own
Author:
Sir Robert Howard (Absolute)
DMI number:
15961
646.
Her wit and beauty for a court was made
First Line:
Her wit and beauty for a court was made
Last Line:
But truth and goodness fit her for a shade
Author:
George Lyttelton (Absolute)
DMI number:
19453
647.
Her comic vein had every charm to please
First Line:
Her comic vein had every charm to please
Last Line:
That if the precepts failed the example taught
Author:
William Whitehead (Absolute)
DMI number:
33570
648.
Her commendations praise you into shame
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Her commendations praise you into shame
Last Line:
And turns all yellow with her jaundiced eye
DMI number:
30230
649.
How comes it doctor you are grown a jest
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How comes it doctor you are grown a jest
Last Line:
For those that pay you will be always right
DMI number:
21064
650.
How comes it great Maecenas that there's not
First Line:
How comes it great Maecenas that there's not
Last Line:
Is like Crispin's volumes I'll not add a line
Author:
Alexander Brome (Absolute)
DMI number:
42169
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