Union First Line Index of English Verse

13th-19th Century (bulk 1500-1800)


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A learned prelate of this land  Andrewes, Francis  [on Archbishop Bancroft]  The scruple troubled all the reast.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 31 
Cowards fear to die, but courage stout  Raleigh, Sir Walter?  `Sir W. Raleigh on the snuff of a candle the night before he died'  Rather than live in snuff will be put out.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 16v 
Enter O see this tomb Sirs do not fear    `Verses upon bottles of wine laid in sand made tomb fashion'  A speedy resurrection from thy grave.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 16 
Farewell ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles  Wotton, Sir Henry?  `Valediction'  I'll never look for't but in heaven again.  Bodley  Don. e. 6 (attr. Digby)  f. 7 
Fine Madam Would-be, wherefore should you fear  Jonson, Ben  `Ben Jonson on the fine Lady Would be'  Of the not born, yet buried, here's the tomb.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 22v 
Give me a girl (if one I needs must meet)  Cartwright, William  `On women'  Is to enjoy their ashes or their fire.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 17v 
Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand  Jonson, Ben  `In Groyne'  For his whore; Groyne doth still occupy the land.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 23v 
Hardness assuming from toucht air alone    `Corall. Ovid. Met. Lib: 4' [couplet]  Under the sea a twig, above a stone.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 26v 
He first deceas'd; she for a little tried    [couplet]  To live without him; liked it not, and died.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 16 
He first deceas'd; she for a little tried    [couplet]  To live without him; liked it not, and died.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 17 
He that will thrive in state, he must neglect  Jonson, Ben  [couplet from Sejanus, acc III]  The trodden paths, that truth and right respect.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 17v 
Her being was in him alone    [couplet; see Crum H1216]  And she not being he was none.  Bodley  Don. e. 6 (attr. Sir P. Sidney)  f. 28 
Here lies wise and valiant dust  Cleveland, John?  `On the earl of Strafford'  Speechless still and never cry.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 29v 
Here Sir H. L. is lying    `Upon Sir H. L. who had a fair monument for himself, his own statue in marble lying at length; and his mistress kneeling by him'  He lies down and she does kneel.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 23 
I saw a peacock, with a fiery tail.    [`juvenile transcript' by Richard Gough, with extra verse]  I saw the man that saw that dreadful sight.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 38 
If breath were made for every man to buy    `Epigram' [couplet]  The poor man could not live; rich would not die.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 17 
If to a woman's head a painter would  Jonson, Ben  [extracts from translation of Horace's Ars poetica]  Doth please; this, ten times over will delight.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 18v (extracts) 
If tooth-picks of the lentic  Sandys, George  [couplet, translation for Martial]  Be wanting, of a quill then make a toothpick.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 25v 
Is death so great a gamester that he throws  Browne, William, of Tavistock  `Elegy on his wife's death'  Shall send his peaceful dove to fetch thee forth.  Bodley  Don. e. 6 (attr. Donne)  f. 5v 
It is most just to throw that on the ground    `Innotus quaedam extempore in Herbert poem' [couplet]  Which would throw thee if that thou keep the round.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 16v 
Let's so front death as men may judge us past it    [couplet]  For good men but see death, the wicked taste it.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 16v 
Madam, had all antiquity been lost  Jonson, Ben  [to Mary Lady Wroth; Epigrammes]  I' you self, all treasure lost before.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 23v 
Music, thou queen of souls! Get up and string  Randolph, Thomas  `Mr. Randolph in commendation of music' [pr. 1638]  Strike a sad note, and fix them trees again.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 36v 
My prayers are heard,f O Lyce, now  Cartwright, William  Horace, Ode IV.xiii [pr. Comedies, 1651]  Now into colder ashes turn'd.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 21 
Nothing that's plain    [two lines]  But may be witty if thou hast the vein.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 16v 
Of orators the prince, of speech the pride    [translation from Latin: Adamus Tefellenius in suo itin.' [pr. in George Sandys's Relation of a journey, 1615]  Blest, in that I thy consul am become.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 25 
Oh Menela, the gods forever blest    [translation]  Made wine to expel grief from the troubled breast.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 27v 
Oh rare exploit! What go and woo and wed    `Epithalamium'  Soldiers and wives are best when volunteers.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 31v 
Pox take you all; from you my sorrows swell  Randolph, Thomas  `Mr. Thomas Randolph's expostulation with his creditors' [pr. Poems, 1640]  May they more debtors have, and all like me.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  p. 105 
Proclus with's hand his nose can never wipe    `An ancient epigram upon one Proclus' [translated from Latin; cf. P277]  Himself not sneeze, the sound's so far from's ears.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 45v 
Reader wonder think it none  Fletcher, Giles?  `On Prince Henry' [1612; pr. Camden's Remaines, 1623]  Melt themselves to tears and die.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 6v 
Stout mates that oft with me have borne a share    Horace, Ode I.vii  Tomorrow will we to vast seas repair.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 27v 
Strew flowers; here lies Syncerus in earth's womb  Sandys, George?  `Jacobus Sannazarius his epitaph' [translated from the Latin of P. Bembo; or. Relation of a journey, 1615]  His muse as next to Maroe's so his tomb.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 27 
Strike up my dull muse and twang me a ditty  Ireland, Thomas, Christ Church Oxford (matr. 1640/1)  `Momus elencticus. A light come-off upon that serious piece of simplicity presented by the vice-chancellor of Oxon...at Whitehall'  The danger's all past if you do not__Domine finis.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 12 
This place doth hate, love, punish, keep, requite  Sandys, George?  `Over the Court of Justice in Zacynthus is written this distichon' [couplet; translation from Latin]  Voluptuous riot, peace, crime, laws, th'upright.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 25 
Thou whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance  Herbert, George  `The church-porch. Perirhanterium' [pr. 1633]  If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 16v 
To put out the word whore, thou dost me woe  Jonson, Ben?  `Ben Jonson to a friend' [couplet]  Throughout my book; troth put out women too.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 22v 
Unto the wiser gods the care permit  Boyle, Robert  `Out of a heathen satirist' [Juvenal, x.347; pr. Some motives and incentives to the love of God, 1659]  Knowing, what both the wife and boys would prove.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 36 
We would make bonfires (Sir) but that we doubt    `The welcome home'  May tithes stand fast, and I be parson still.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 32 
What female sex doth often sever    `Epitaph; placed on an old monument in comitatu Warwiciense'  The virgin's glory and the maiden's grace.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 17 
What's a protector? It's a stately thing  Cleveland, John?  [pr. Cleveland's Works, 1687]  From whom the king of kings protect us all.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 15v 
When civil fury first grew high  Butler, Samuel  [extracts from Hudibras, translated into Latin verse by Jo. Harmer]  ....  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 37 
Who horses cheapen, search them and make proof  Sandys, George?  `Horat. Ser. ist Satire 2nd' [pr. George Sandys' Relation of a journey, 1615]  Cheat him that should uncircumspectly buy.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 25v 
Who says that Giles and Joan at discord be?  Jonson, Ben  `On Giles and Joan'  I know no couple better can agree.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 22 
Would you believe when you the Monsieur see  Jonson, Ben  `On English Monsieur' [Epigrammes, lxxxviii]  Daily to turn in Paul's and help the trade.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 23 
Wouldst thou hear what man can say  Jonson, Ben  `An epitaph on a gentlewoman whose name was Elizabeth [Elizabeth Sidney? or Queen Elizabeth?]' [Epigrammes, cxxiv]  Than that it lived at all; farewell.  Bodley  Don. e. 6  f. 24