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Title
Last Line
Library
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A monster in the course of vice grown old
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 19v
Admired in Germany, adored in France
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 42v
All health to her in whose bright form we find
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 31
All nature's charms in Sunderland appear
Halifax, Charles Montagu, 1st earl
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 41v
Approach ye mean coquettes, and view her well
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 35
As some fond virgin, whom her mother's care
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 82
At Barton's feet the god of love
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 32v
At once the sun and Carlisle took their way
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 35
At the due sacrifice of the Paschal lamb
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 22v
Beauty and wit strove each in vain
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 32v
Behold and listen while the fair
Waller, Edmund
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 45
Behold this northern star's auspicious light
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 34
Beneath in the dust
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 22
Beneath this stone lies Catherine Gray
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 20v
Carlisle's a name can every muse inspire
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 34
Clarinda, dearly loved, attend
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 81v
Come let us rejoice, merry boys, at his fall
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 25v
Could Grecian masters from the shades return
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 37v
Creator spirit, by whose aid
Dryden, John
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 48v
Curse on the sound! the temple and the temple
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 31
Death throws me here beneath this stone
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 25
Deluded mortals, whom the great
Swift, Jonathan
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 70
Echo, I ween, will in the woods reply
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 52
Empire, the daughter and the sire divide
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 31v
Eyes I have, and yet I've none
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 47v
Fair as the blushing grape she stands
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 36
Fair Dunch's eyes such radiant glances dart
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 36
Fair ladies, number five
Swift, Jonathan
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 68
Fair written name, but deeper in my heart
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 39
Fairest and latest of the beauteous race
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 33v
Father of all, in every age
Pope, Alexander
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 28v
Fill the glass, let hautboys sound
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 39v
Fine lace and linen, sir
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 57v
Flat contradictions wage in Bolton war
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 32
Flavia, the least and slightest toy
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 50
Fy, let us a' to the bridal
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 57
Gentlest air, thou breath of lovers
Winchilsea, Anne Finch, countess
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 51v
God works wonders now and then
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 21v
Godolphin's easy and unpracticed air
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 37v
Great as a goddess and of form divine
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 34v
Great father of the skies whose boundless sway
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 26
Happy the man who void of cares and strife
Philips, John
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 24
Here closely list, here end the female strife
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 40v
Here Cornlay lies in cold clay clad
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 25
Here lie I must
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 23v
Here lies father Sparges
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 25
Here lies Fuller's earth
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 20v
Here lies inter'd Martin Hericord
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 24v
Here lies John, Duke of Marlborough
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 23v
Here lies John Pie
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 22v
Here lies my wife, there let her lie
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 25v
Here lies one here
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 21v
Here lies the body of Richard Okes
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 24
Here lies the body of Sir John Guise
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 24
Here old John Randal lies
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 24v
How vain are mortal man's endeavors
Gay, John
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 62
Hyde, though in agonies, her graces keeps
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 38
I bathe in rose dew and ne'er fail
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 22
I early went with muffled face
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 35
I hold as faith
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 78v
I lately saw what now I sing
Green, Matthew
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 73v
I reach all things near me and far off to boot
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 46v
I've gained the port, farewell fond hope and fortune
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 21
I've picked from poets pericranies
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 5
I've thought, the fair Clarissa cries
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 94
If heav'n the grateful liberty would give
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 8
If perfect joy from perfect beauty rise
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 42v
Imperial Juno gave her matchless grace
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 33
In fair Hare there are charms
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 38v
In Harper all the loves and graces shine
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 38
In various ways designing mortals move
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 64
In youth exalted high in air
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 7
Jerusalem's curse is not fulfilled in me
Stone, Ben
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 24
Johnnie Carnegie lies here
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 20
Learn by this portrait how the kit-cats toast
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 42
London, no more thy trade or riches boast
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 43
Look on the loveliest tree that shades the park
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 33
Love's keenest darts are charming Bolton's care
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 31v
Musician and physician eke
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 23
My friend and I from home did part
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 47
My name is Do and here I lie
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 21v
My sledge and hammer both declined
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 21
No wonder ladies that at court appear
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 36v
No wonder Scots our kingdom would invade
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 35v
Of two fair Richmonds different ages boast
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 41
Offspring of a tuneful sire
Halifax, Charles Montagu, 1st earl
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 31
O Dunch, if fewer with thy charms are fired
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 35v
O louse, inhabitant of a schoolboy's coat
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 34
O Reader, if that thou cant read
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 25v
One father had twelve sons, these each a race
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 46v
Phoebus, from whom this fair her wit derives
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 40v
Richmond has charms that continue our claim
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 41v
She o'er all hearts and toasts must reign
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 34v
Sing, heavenly muse
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 23
So many charms D. Kirk surround
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 39v
Soon as one phoenix sought her kindred skies
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 42
Stamped with her reigning charms, this standard glass
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 32
Stay, traveller, a while and view
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 13
Strange all this difference should be
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 48
Such beauty joined with such harmonious skill
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 33v
Take heed, O good traveller, and do not tread hard
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 20
Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay
Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th earl
[on the countess of Dorchester]
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 51
The bravest hero and the brightest dame
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 36v
The counsels of a friend, Belinda, hear
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 75v
The god of wine grows jealous of his art
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 38
The gods of wit, and wine, and love conspire
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 38v
The gos of love, aided by Cecil's charms
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 41
The line of Vere, so long renowned in arms
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 30v
The prologue's filled with such fine phrases
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 11
The saints above can ask, but not bestow
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 30v
The sirens once deluded, vainly charmed
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 44
The sceptics think 'twas long ago
Prior, Matthew
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 13v
The solitary bird of night
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 15
There was two birds sat on a stone
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 45v
This commoner has worth and parts
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 19
To Essex fill the sprightly wine
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 37
To knowledge my first steps I fain would raise
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 2
To speak with freedom, dignity and ease
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 9
To you who first informed my infant age
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 3
Twas in the close recesses of a shade
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 66
Twas night, and Flavia to her room retir'd
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 71
Unrivalled Nicholas, whose victorious eyes
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 40
Venus, contending for the golden ball
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 43
Welcome peaceful calm retreat
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 20v
Well, if ever I saw such another man
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 54
What am I? How produced? and for what end
Arbuthnot, John
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 62
What England's C[hurc]h allows
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 78v
What I shall leave thee none can tell
Corbett, Richard
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 50v
When a twister in twisting doth twist him a twist
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 46
When Jove to Ida did the gods invite
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 43v
When learnings triumph o'er her barb'rous foes
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 68
When will the gods, propitious to our prayers
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 79
While haughty Gallia's dames that spread
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 40
Who kill'd Kildare? Who dared Kildare to kill
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 21v
Why laughs the wine with which this glass is crowned
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 36v
Ye distant spires, ye antique towers
Gray, Thomas
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 2)
f. 89v
You rakes who midnight judges sit
Harvard
MS Eng 768 (vol. 1)
f. 43v
