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A blushing younger brother to a lord    `Witty epigrams on several occasions, 4'    Hunt  HM106  p. 365 
A certain rich churl sold all his estate    `On a rich churl'    Hunt  HM106  p. 356 
A dove, a sparrow, a parrot and crow    `A woman's life resembled'    Hunt  HM106  p. 363 
A lawyer who a handsome wife had wed    `Witty epigrams on several occasions, 5'    Hunt  HM106  p. 365 
A man that does on riches set his mind    `Verses for youth to practise'    Hunt  HM106  p. 351 
A mind form'd right can disappointments bear        Hunt  HM106  p. 252 
A noted liar meets this due reward    `A noted liar'    Hunt  HM106  p. 141 
A proper time to all things is decreed    `A proper time for all things'    Hunt  HM106  p. 156 
A sable night returns a shining morrow    `The way to heaven is not straw'd with riches'    Hunt  HM106  p. 335 
A set of phrases learnt by rote  Swift, Jonathan  `The furniture of a woman's mind'    Hunt  HM106  p. 27 
A stag with horns exceeding fine    `The stag'    Hunt  HM106  p. 51 
A wife, my friend, who takes the wisest way        Hunt  HM106  p. 5 
A wife's the sea wherein man's bark is lost    `The reverse'    Hunt  HM106  p. 157 
A youthful spark match'd with a wrinkled dame    `Witty epigrams on several occasions, 2.'    Hunt  HM106  p. 364 
Adieu ye trifling glories of the age    `An alphabet of copies on sundry subjects'    Hunt  HM106  p. 167 
Adverse fortune compels us oft away    `A set of copies on fortune'    Hunt  HM106  p. 96 
After my solemn vows and many ties    `Self-denial. A poem'    Hunt  HM106  p. 72 
Ah, Colley! Tis but little worth your while    `A lady's remark on Cibber's Epistle to Mr. Pope'    Hunt  HM106  p. 41 
Ah fool! That dot'st on vain, on present toys        Hunt  HM106  p. 211 
Ah! righteous Job, what cross was left unknown    `Submit to Providence'    Hunt  HM106  p. 344 
Alas how fleeting are our greatest joys    `On the frailty of human joys and the uncertainty of worldly things'    Hunt  HM106  p. 99 
All things are in their proper season best    `A time for all things'    Hunt  HM106  p. 106 
An ape, a lion, a fox, and an ass    `On man's life'    Hunt  HM106  p. 363 
An even hand will an ev'n state maintain    `An alphabet of promiscuous copies'    Hunt  HM106  p. 119 
An humble station is a safe retreat    `Stand low'    Hunt  HM106  p. 150 
An idle thriftless youth gives sure presage    `Idleness and industry'    Hunt  HM106  p. 147 
Art thou so kind, to love unlov'd again?        Hunt  HM106  p. 229 
Art thou so weak? O canst thou not digest        Hunt  HM106  p. 209 
As gaudy feathers deck the rav'nous birds    `More copies on divers occasions'    Hunt  HM106  p. 169 
As in a clock one motion doth convey        Hunt  HM106  p. 162 
As shells on sandy shores as stars above    `Copies touching love affairs'    Hunt  HM106  p. 181 
Attend me full fraught all ye muses    `On the glorious and immortal exploits of Marshal Broglio, as acted throughout the globe with general applause'    Hunt  HM106  p. 29 
Be wise my friend more pow'r nor honor gain    `Lines of advice'    Hunt  HM106  p. 16 
Behold in George the Second's reign    `The reverse. June 1742'    Hunt  HM106  p. 47 
Broad is the road that leads to death        Hunt  HM106  p. 176 
Brooks murmur out their joy, the birds they siing    `On the violet'    Hunt  HM106  p. 338 
By all means use sometimes to be alone        Hunt  HM106  p. 68 
Can fortune be more hard or more unkind    `The best things abused prove the worst'    Hunt  HM106  p. 207 
Come Holy Ghost, fountain of light and love        Hunt  HM106  p. 70 
Contented men no disappointment dread    `Contentment'    Hunt  HM106  p. 181 
Contented with its own, an honest mind        Hunt  HM106  p. 93 
Cupid, thy diet's strange: it dulls, it rouses        Hunt  HM106  p. 241 
Dear William didst thou never go    `The screen. A simile'    Hunt  HM106  p. 58 
Death is the bailiff that one process bears    `On death'    Hunt  HM106  p. 122 
Death! Tis a melancholy day    `On death'    Hunt  HM106  p. 117 
Deep in the bosom of a grove    `A pastoral song; or the turtledove'    Hunt  HM106  p. 60 
Deluded Prince! How is thy greatness crost    `The following lines, addressed to the late Elector of Bavaria, are applicable to the present state of his son. 1743'    Hunt  HM106  p. 32 
Dissemblers often desp'rate hazards run    `On dissemblers and false friends'    Hunt  HM106  p. 124 
Do not in ev'ry man's advice confide    `Fair speeches dress foul intentions'    Hunt  HM106  p. 124 
Domestic cares afflict the husband's bed        Hunt  HM106  p. 11 
Each man's inheritance as well as mine  Beere, Robert  `Robert Beere fecit'    Hunt  HM106  p. 88 
Earth stands immov'd and fix'd; her situation    `On earth and heaven'    Hunt  HM106  p. 158 
Earth's but a ball that heav'n hath quilted o'er    `The earth compared to a ball'    Hunt  HM106  p. 208 
Ev'n as fair Phoebe in diameter    `The moon eclipsed compared to riches'    Hunt  HM106  p. 207 
Excellent mistress brighter than the moon    `Fine courtship'    Hunt  HM106  p. 159 
False friends with plausible advice betray    `On false friends'    Hunt  HM106  p. 148 
Few men their friends to such excess adore    `Self love'    Hunt  HM106  p. 154 
Few monarchs die without some bloody blow        Hunt  HM106  p? (blotted) 
France ne'er will comply    `A health'    Hunt  HM106  p. 366 
Friendship's in substance as refined gold    `On friendship'    Hunt  HM106  p. 343 
From bad health and bad weath'r and party's dull strife    `The honest Englishman's wish'    Hunt  HM106  p. 155 
From night to day, from day to night        Hunt  HM106  p. 179 
From things consider'd with a stricter view    `A single life the rarest'    Hunt  HM106  p. 111 
God loves no sophistry; who argues least        Hunt  HM106  p. 165 
God works those purposes which lie intends    `On God'    Hunt  HM106  p. 154 
Good people that in Europe dwell    `Two staves to the Hundredth Psalm'    Hunt  HM106  p. 57 
Great all in all that art my rest, my home    `To God'    Hunt  HM106  p. 215 
Great Louis through the world renown'd    `The Italian voyage, an epigram'    Hunt  HM106  p. 30 
Guided by fate we must subservient be        Hunt  HM106  p. 1 
Hail Father! Whose creating call    `An hymn to God the Father'    Hunt  HM106  p. 22 
Hail God the Son in glory crown'd    `An hymn to God the Son'    Hunt  HM106  p. 23 
Hail holy holy holy Lord    `An hymn to the Holy Trinity'    Hunt  HM106  p. 24 
Happy the man who free from care  Pope, Alexander      Hunt  HM106  p. 3 
Happy the man who with exalted soul        Hunt  HM106  p. 85 
Happy the man who with exalted soul    `From Robinson Crusoe'    Hunt  HM106  p. 337 
Happy, thrice happy, more than blest        Hunt  HM106  p. 5 
Happy's the man whose wife's both wise and kind    `A good wife'    Hunt  HM106  p. 156 
Hard was thy fate, alas, unhappy maid!    `On a young lady who died for love'    Hunt  HM106  p. 33 
Hark! From the tombs a doleful sound    `A funeral thought'    Hunt  HM106  p. 113 
He husbands best his life that freely gives        Hunt  HM106  p. 166 
He that will true examples learn to give        Hunt  HM106  p. 87 
He threatens youth with age; and now, alas!    `On the old man'    Hunt  HM106  p. 251 
He who can bravely inborn courage prove        Hunt  HM106  p. 8 
He who does pleasure more that profit prize    `On pleasure and profit'    Hunt  HM106  p. 90 
He who encounters with too potent foes    `Verses on sundry subjects'    Hunt  HM106  p. 125 
He who his actions by opinion rules    `No pleasing everybody'    Hunt  HM106  p. 105 
He who in wicked actions takes delight        Hunt  HM106  p. 1 
He who would please all and their good liking gain    `Good nature'    Hunt  HM106  p. 156 
He whose inheritance is only time        Hunt  HM106  p. 87 
He whose uncertain mind has various drifts    `Quit not a certainty for an uncertainty'    Hunt  HM106  p. 115 
Heav'n's streets with burnish'd gold are paved round    `A description of heaven'    Hunt  HM106  p. 226 
Here griefs do neither press not doubts perplex    `On man, at the age of twenty years'    Hunt  HM106  p. 226 
High thund'ring Jove, who in heav'n's loftiest throne        Hunt  HM106  p. 3 
His pace is heavy and his face severe    `Saturnus'    Hunt  HM106  p. 151 
Hope, specious bait of humankind    `Hope'    Hunt  HM106  p. 200 
How blest that union and those hands how sweet!    `On the nuptials of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales with the Prince of Orange'    Hunt  HM106  p. 20 
How deadly is the venom of fair tongues    `Fair words butter no parsnips'    Hunt  HM106  p. 133 
How few of ev'ry wish possess'd    `The rat turn'd hermit: a fable most seasonably addressed to the Rt. Honorable the E. of O[rfor]d'    Hunt  HM106  p. 43 
How gladly we hear the scandal        Hunt  HM106  p. 343 
How happy is he born or taught  Wotton, Sir Henry  `The character of a happy life'    Hunt  HM106  p. 89 
How many days in one whole year there be  Camden, [ ]?  `On Lady Church [Our Lady's Church] in Salisbury, according to Mr. Camden'    Hunt  HM106  p. 357 
How quickly are past services forgot    `On past services'    Hunt  HM106  p. 116 
How readily do all our natures tend        Hunt  HM106  p. 12 
How short and hasty is our life!  Watts, Isaac  `Frailty and folly'    Hunt  HM106  p. 119 
How vain, alas! is ev'ry human joy        Hunt  HM106  p. 19 
How various fickle changing are    `A verse'    Hunt  HM106  p. 110 
Husband and wife in their conjunction seem    `Husband and wife'    Hunt  HM106  p. 199 
I am but weak and frail and what I can    `On the frailty of my own nature    Hunt  HM106  p. 161 
I am that island which in times of old    `On Ireland'    Hunt  HM106  p. 358 
I am the object of the world's denials        Hunt  HM106  p. 217 
I cry for pardon: let thy gentle ears  B., R.      Hunt  HM106  p. 235 
I love (and have some cause to love) the earth        Hunt  HM106  p. 233 
I love not summer for the sun then reigns    `On the four quarters of the year'    Hunt  HM106  p. 19 
I love the man, I love his from my soul    `A man to be beloved'    Hunt  HM106  p. 164 
I must confess the truth; the time has been    `On sorrow and affliction'    Hunt  HM106  p. 139 
I scarce can think a man deserves a name        Hunt  HM106  p. 15 
I took pen, ink, and paper too        Hunt  HM106  p. 369 
If e'er I quit a single life    `Writ over a chimney in Gloucestershire'    Hunt  HM106  p. 62 
If marriage gives a happiness to life    `The bachelor's wish'    Hunt  HM106  p. 110 
If prosp'rous chances make thy casting high        Hunt  HM106  p. 216 
If riches fail or hopeful children die    `Yield willingly to providence'    Hunt  HM106  p. 123 
If Rome can pardon sins as Papists hold  Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd earl?  `On Rome's pardons'    Hunt  HM106  p. 86 
If you expect to conquer this rare art    `On writing'    Hunt  HM106  p. 87 
Ill thrives the state that harbors such a man        Hunt  HM106  p. 345 
Impartial heav'n has so its gifts address'd        Hunt  HM106  p. 160 
In choosing goods my heart shall make the choice        Hunt  HM106  p. 205 
In London stands a famous pile    `On the South Sea [bubble?]'    Hunt  HM106  p. 359 
In vain the wealthy mortals toil    `The rich sinner dying'    Hunt  HM106  p. 118 
In youth and strength we should our pains engage    `Provide for yourself'    Hunt  HM106  p. 85 
Infant who by thy swing supported    `The infant in a swing'    Hunt  HM106  p. 56 
Insatiate jilts, for mercenary ends    `On jilts'    Hunt  HM106  p. 93 
Is this alas! our boasted mortal state?    `Contemplations on the prospect of the supposed corpse of King Solomon et al.'    Hunt  HM106  p. 17 
It is no loss to lose; no gain to get        Hunt  HM106  p. 165 
It is the lot of man but once to die        Hunt  HM106  p. 230 
It is well known that looks are often liars    `The look a liar'    Hunt  HM106  p. 345 
It shall be so, I will, 'tis my command    `Sic volo, sic jubeo, stat pro ratione voluntas'    Hunt  HM106  p. 5 
Jonas the brazier and his wife fell out    `Witty epigrams on several occasions, 3'    Hunt  HM106  p. 365 
Just as a nurse whose child's imperfect pace    `As a nurse with a child, so is God with man'    Hunt  HM106  p. 161 
Just as we see the lonesome dove    `Delight in God'    Hunt  HM106  p. 94 
Learn to depend on neither sons, race, state    `Part of Hecuba's epitaph'    Hunt  HM106  p. 13 
Leave, leave me not, nor turn thy beauty from me        Hunt  HM106  p. 227 
Let him that will ascend the tott'ring seat  Hale, Sir Matthew  `Ld. Chief Justice Hale's having laid down his place about a year before his death, betook himself to a retired privacy...'    Hunt  HM106  p. 78 
Let husbands rule their wives and bear their sway    `The duty of wives'    Hunt  HM106  p. 332 
Let not fair words which sly dissemblers give        Hunt  HM106  p. 201 
Let statesmen plot and under bus'ness groan        Hunt  HM106  p. 367 
Life boasts no blessing more refin'd than art        Hunt  HM106  p. 4 
Life is the time to serve the Lord    `Life the day of grace and hope'    Hunt  HM106  p. 114 
Life's but a snare, a labyrinth of woe    `Robinson Crusoe's description of life'    Hunt  HM106  p. 338 
Like flies with torches, subjects deal with kings        Hunt  HM106  p. 177 
Like to the damask rose you see  *Wastell, Simon? or Quarles, Francis?  `On man's life'    Hunt  HM106  p. 82 
Listen ye friends of the poetic tribe    `The poetaster'    Hunt  HM106  p. 63 
Love conquers all things, to his pow'r we yield    `Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori'    Hunt  HM106  p. 5 
Love suffers long with patient eye    `Love and charity'    Hunt  HM106  p. 117 
Lust it is deaf and has no ears to hear    `On lust'    Hunt  HM106  p. 199 
Man is man's A. B. C. there's none that can        Hunt  HM106  p. 214 
Man sees like man and can but comprehend    `God seeth not as man sees'    Hunt  HM106  p. 335 
Man's a poor deluded bubble    `On man'    Hunt  HM106  p. 336 
Men grown in years should wisely wives decline    `Old men should not marry'    Hunt  HM106  p. 342 
Men live in motion so do their designs    `All things change'    Hunt  HM106  p. 146 
Men rise securely with the morning sun    `On man's frailty'    Hunt  HM106  p. 104 
Men who o'er seas to distant countries roll    `Nature unalterable'    Hunt  HM106  p. 4 
Men with their neighbors' failings oft make bold    `Look at home'    Hunt  HM106  p. 107 
Men's mem'ries commonly delighted are        Hunt  HM106  p. 6 
Misers are traitors ev'n to nature's law    `Misers'    Hunt  HM106  p. 153 
Momus observ'd one error in God's art    `Momus's observation'    Hunt  HM106  p. 154 
Most men have itching fingers to shed blood        Hunt  HM106  p. 345 
My friend, what's lighter than a feath'r? Wind        Hunt  HM106  p. 237 
My glass is half unspent; my poor request    `My request'    Hunt  HM106  p. 236 
My path is lost; my wand'ring steps do stray  B., R.      Hunt  HM106  p. 235 
My soul is like a bird, my flesh the cage    `On my soul'    Hunt  HM106  p. 228 
My stint of wealth lies not in my expressing    `Enough as good as a feast'    Hunt  HM106  p. 208 
Naked ah! poor and naked did I come    `A paraphrase, Job 1st. ver. the 21st'    Hunt  HM106  p. 208 
Nature's chief gifts unequally are carv'd    `An epigram Englished'    Hunt  HM106  p. 340 
Necessity whose empire all must own    `Hunger the cheapest sauce'    Hunt  HM106  p. 90 
Never let fear of punishments incline        Hunt  HM106  p. 4 
Next unto God, dear parents, I address    `Verses from a youth at school to his parents'    Hunt  HM106  p. 349 
No gifts for men of base designs receive    `Take no gifts from bad men'    Hunt  HM106  p. 155 
No, I shall envy them no more    `Vain property'    Hunt  HM106  p. 180 
No length of time can our still natures bend        Hunt  HM106  p. 1 
No man is born to himself alone    `No man is born to himself'    Hunt  HM106  p. 331 
No power is of man: to love or hate    `No power but of God'    Hunt  HM106  p. 334 
No sooner are we born, no sooner come    `He that begins to live, begins to die'    Hunt  HM106  p. 223 
No tempting profit can great souls entice    `Keep a good name'    Hunt  HM106  p. 116 
No tyrant's government can long endure        Hunt  HM106  p. 8 
Nor pomp nor outward show nor bold pretense    `To princes'    Hunt  HM106  p. 141 
Not from the dust affliction grows    `Afflictions and death under providence'    Hunt  HM106  p. 177 
Now whilest the sun illumines all our clime    `To the ministers of our times'    Hunt  HM106  p. 199 
Of things in which mankind doth most excel    `On writing'    Hunt  HM106  p. 349 
Oft have I heard some aged men foretell        Hunt  HM106  p. 159 
O beauty, doubtful good, to humankind!    `On beauty'    Hunt  HM106  p. 6 
O blessed Virgin, how my passion tires        Hunt  HM106  p. 232 
O chastity the flower of the soul    `On chastity'    Hunt  HM106  p. 158 
O greatness! Thou'rt an ice to stand upon    `On greatness'    Hunt  HM106  p. 150 
O groundless deeps! O love beyond degree!    `On Jesus'    Hunt  HM106  p. 222 
Oh! How extremely wretched is that man    `On misfortunes'    Hunt  HM106  p. 339 
Oh how my will is hurried to and fro    `On man's will'    Hunt  HM106  p. 213 
Oh! I could curse all womankind but one    `On woman'    Hunt  HM106  p. 340 
Oh if the universe one temple were    `Oh that man would praise the Lord for his goodness! A poem'    Hunt  HM106  p. 71 
O Love! Thou art the perfect adament    `On love'    Hunt  HM106  p. 342 
O Mary! Soft in feature    `Greenwood Hall, or Colin's description (to his wife) of the pleasures of Spring Gardens'    Hunt  HM106  p. 41 
Oh the unhappy joys which love contains    `On love'    Hunt  HM106  p. 135 
O thou that didst with hopeful joy entomb    `To my mother'    Hunt  HM106  p. 223 
Once all extoll'd me much now angry grown    `Honesty rejected'    Hunt  HM106  p. 343 
One evil shunn'd fools to a greater run    `A fool ruins himself'    Hunt  HM106  p. 148 
Orpheus did make the stones strange wonders do    `On gold'    Hunt  HM106  p. 153 
Our days alas! our mortal days    `The shortness and misery of life'    Hunt  HM106  p. 95 
Our grandame Eve before it was forbid    `Make the best of a bad game'    Hunt  HM106  p. 332 
Our joys (like tricks) do all on cheats depend    `Our joys are all false'    Hunt  HM106  p. 338 
Our wasting lives grow shorter still    `Frail life and succeeding eternity'    Hunt  HM106  p. 178 
Out of the bosom of the new-made earth    `On man'    Hunt  HM106  p. 210 
Parent of health to thee I aweful sue    `The following lines were wrote by a gentleman at Bath with his sick wife, on his wedding day, 30 years after marriage'    Hunt  HM106  p. 20 
Pert dullness some mistake for merit    `The young lady, the parrot, and the squirrel, a fable'    Hunt  HM106  p. 31 
Place not your pride in roofs that shine with gems        Hunt  HM106  p. 162 
Poets are liars and for love of rhymes    `On poets'    Hunt  HM106  p. 3 
Poor men with rich in ill-match'd friendships join'd        Hunt  HM106  p. 175 
Pour soul! How art thou hurried to and fro!    `The soul ensnared'    Hunt  HM106  p. 221 
Poverty my friend takes a good man more    `On poverty'    Hunt  HM106  p. 18 
Prato a formal sage debates with care    `Prato'    Hunt  HM106  p. 205 
Rarely does vengeance quit the villain's chase        Hunt  HM106  p. 4 
Read pause consider put thy reason to't        Hunt  HM106  p. 68 
Receive these flowers, take 'em in your hand  Beere, Robert  `A copy of verses sent (with a nosegay) to a young woman'    Hunt  HM106  p. 93 
Remember what the famous Grecian says    `On honor'    Hunt  HM106  p. 152 
Right's not impair'd with weakness but prevails    `Truth better than strength'    Hunt  HM106  p. 165 
See th'auspicious morn appears    `From the [dirty] Gazetteer: an ode'    Hunt  HM106  p. 40 
Seest thou this good old man? He represents    `To the youth, in answer to 60 years'    Hunt  HM106  p. 250 
Since all mankind must stoop to fortune's lure    `Another set of copies on fortune'    Hunt  HM106  p. 97 
Since curious letters in a kind distill    `How to perform the art of writing well'    Hunt  HM106  p. 350 
Since ev'ry mind betrays a diff'rent taste        Hunt  HM106  p. 341 
Since here we daily revolutions see    `No reckoning of chickens before they are hatched'    Hunt  HM106  p. 90 
Since we must die, but where is not declar'd    `Consider your latter end'    Hunt  HM106  p. 107 
Small credit is to late repentance due    `Trust not to late repentance'    Hunt  HM106  p. 179 
So poor a thing is man: no flesh and blood    `There is none good but one man'    Hunt  HM106  p. 209 
Some fancy's project till their learned schools        Hunt  HM106  p. 203 
Some higglers in divinity do sell    `Salvation sold to us'    Hunt  HM106  p. 363 
Some prosp'rous fools like bladders newly blown    `On prosperous fools'    Hunt  HM106  p. 125 
Stoop down my thoughts that use to rise    `Death and eternity'    Hunt  HM106  p. 149 
Strait is the way, the door is strait    `Christian virtues'    Hunt  HM106  p. 150 
Strayed of late from church, the grace of graces    `A proclamation after the old primitive charity'    Hunt  HM106  p. 84 
Strive not with the rod or instrument but rather    `A clue for the labyrinth'    Hunt  HM106  p. 83 
Sweet heav'nly songstress of the skies!    `To a skylark singing: an ode'    Hunt  HM106  p. 33 
Sweet is that gospel which we do profess    `A poem'    Hunt  HM106  p. 75 
Taurus a bellowing champion storms and swears    `Taurus'    Hunt  HM106  p. 164 
That man who his his will to evil brought        Hunt  HM106  p. 12 
The coward's stout and brave in his own eyes        Hunt  HM106  p. 4 
The drones who haunt their busy neighbors' hives    `No work, nor meat'    Hunt  HM106  p. 92 
The earth's a blast and all the world's a bubble        Hunt  HM106  p. 215 
The fire but touch'd, the flame but felt        Hunt  HM106  p. 231 
The fox did bite so hard last night    `To cure the bite of a fox'    Hunt  HM106  p. 358 
The frontispiece of sin is fair in show    `On sin'    Hunt  HM106  p. 342 
The frowns of indisposed fortune makes    `Frowning fortune makes not a man unhappy'    Hunt  HM106  p. 334 
The love of money does with money grow        Hunt  HM106  p. 11 
The man is curs'd that takes a she        Hunt  HM106  p. 6 
The man whose faith disdain'd his Isaac's life    `All men have their sins'    Hunt  HM106  p. 337 
The mighty secret, how to lie and cheat    `A tradesman a liar'    Hunt  HM106  p. 106 
The milk-white swan that has no chanting note    `The dying swan'    Hunt  HM106  p. 367 
The morning sun reflects and shines most bright        Hunt  HM106  p. 166 
The name of wisdom is august and great    `Two steps to the temple of honor'    Hunt  HM106  p. 83 
The patient man in sorrow finds relief        Hunt  HM106  p. 161 
The pliant soul of erring youth    `A fool in youth, never a wise man'    Hunt  HM106  p. 339 
The poor in judging of his neighbor's state    `Sweet meat has sour sauce'    Hunt  HM106  p. 105 
The poor man as the rich direct him steers    `The poor man a slave to the rich'    Hunt  HM106  p. 178 
The proud whose minds do with their fortunes rise    `On proud men'    Hunt  HM106  p. 181 
The rule of many doth disquiet bring        Hunt  HM106  p. 158 
The sad the airy hate, the brisk the sad        Hunt  HM106  p. 3 
The silent grave is quiet from the fear    `The grave the bed of rest'    Hunt  HM106  p. 344 
The transient honors which frail riches bring        Hunt  HM106  p. 9 
The world's a sea; my flesh a ship that's mann'd    `The world compared to the sea'    Hunt  HM106  p. 218 
The world's a stage, each mortal acts thereon    `On the world'    Hunt  HM106  p. 336 
There is a little thing that's found in divers lands    `Another riddle'    Hunt  HM106  p. 91 
There is no tinder that's so apt to fire    `On man's wicked nature'    Hunt  HM106  p. 342 
There's no desert can fix, no ties can bind    `Promiscuous copies'    Hunt  HM106  p. 108 
They who sure profit slight because but small        Hunt  HM106  p. 198 
This house is to be let for life or years        Hunt  HM106  p. 244 
Those books that pass too soon the author's hand    `Books'    Hunt  HM106  p. 148 
Those men whose godliness is only pain    `Serve not God for gain'    Hunt  HM106  p. 115 
Thou call'st me beggar, upstart, and dost tell        Hunt  HM106  p. 366 
Thou mighty man why dost thou boast in sin?    `On sin'    Hunt  HM106  p. 128 
Thou that art prancing on the lusty noon    `To the middle-aged'    Hunt  HM106  p. 250 
Though men their climate shift or cross the main    `Nature unalterable'    Hunt  HM106  p. 106 
Though some would have no Providence    `An hymn to Divine Providence'    Hunt  HM106  p. 25 
Three Kates two Nans and one dear Jane I wedded    `Spoken by King Henry the 8th on his deathbed'    Hunt  HM106  p. 358 
Three things there are that shorten mortals' breath        Hunt  HM106  p. 10 
Thus an ill-humor'd pevish wife is priz'd    `On an ill-humored wife'    Hunt  HM106  p. 124 
Thus in the course of time strange turns we see        Hunt  HM106  p. 14 
Thy years are newly gray, his newly green    `To the old man, in answer to 20 years'    Hunt  HM106  p. 249 
Time! What an empty vapor 'tis!    `The shortness of life'    Hunt  HM106  p. 113 
Tis not the want of riches makes men poor        Hunt  HM106  p. 6 
Tis true I grow more old, but if I do        Hunt  HM106  p. 15 
Told by court Whigs or country Whigs and Tories    `Epigram'    Hunt  HM106  p. 21 
Too conscious of her worth, a lovely maid    `Witty epigrams on several occasions [1]'    Hunt  HM106  p. 364 
True wisdom knows a more exalted bliss        Hunt  HM106  p. 6 
Trust not a friend nor in a guide rely    `A word of advice'    Hunt  HM106  p. 155 
Twas doubt, complant, or chit-chat  Prior, Matthew  `Description of jealousy, in the tale of the turtle and sparrow'    Hunt  HM106  p. 62 
Two English sailors, strangers to the hyp    `On the health late in vogue. To the cleansing the Augean stable'    Hunt  HM106  p. 59 
Unactive wishes slow concessions find    `To wishes join endeavors'    Hunt  HM106  p. 148 
Uncurious men fond of their native ground    `The world a wise man's home'    Hunt  HM106  p. 123 
Upon what day to Vernon's happy birth    `On Admiral Vernon's birthday'    Hunt  HM106  p. 54 
Urge me no more; this airy mirth belongs        Hunt  HM106  p. 233 
Vainly to heav'n men in distresses fly        Hunt  HM106  p. 179 
Villains whose only bent to mischief lies    `On villains'    Hunt  HM106  p. 112 
Want is the badge of poverty; then he    `On want'    Hunt  HM106  p. 163 
Waste lie those walls which were so good    `On Troy town'    Hunt  HM106  p. 13 
We justly may their vanity impeach    `Aim not beyond your reach'    Hunt  HM106  p. 116 
We see so many woods and princely bowers    `On England'    Hunt  HM106  p. 357 
Wedlock we own ordain'd by heaven's decree    `On wedlock'    Hunt  HM106  p. 341 
Well may they smile alike; thy base-bred boy    `Divine Cupid'    Hunt  HM106  p. 243 
What are the bodies men so vainly boast?        Hunt  HM106  p. 2 
What course of life shall my wild wishes share?        Hunt  HM106  p. 12 
What does not time and length of days o'erthrow?    `On time'    Hunt  HM106  p. 9 
What he doth spend in groans, thou spend'st in tears    `To the infant, in answer to 70 years'    Hunt  HM106  p. 251 
What mind, what man, what man of any mind    `Music'    Hunt  HM106  p. 153 
What needs a stratagem where strength can sway?        Hunt  HM106  p. 244 
What sullen star rul'd my untimely birth  Quarles, Francis  `Complaint of birth'    Hunt  HM106  p. 211 
What's sweet-lipp'd honor's blast, but smoke? What's treasure?        Hunt  HM106  p. 240 
Whate'er you do, do soon, for if done late        Hunt  HM106  p. 11 
When expectations of advantage cease    `No longer pipe, no longer dance'    Hunt  HM106  p. 116 
When poets of old began to rehearse    `To Delia'    Hunt  HM106  p. 94 
When prosp'rously I liv'd, I then did fear  B., R.  `On myself'    Hunt  HM106  p. 209 
Whenas cold fears my soul doth shake    `A cordial for affliction'    Hunt  HM106  p. 79 
Where can be found that uncomplaining state        Hunt  HM106  p. 7 
Whilst Britons with united voice proclaim    `On the rejoicings at Northampton on Admiral Vernon's birthday'    Hunt  HM106  p. 55 
Whilst happier brutes th'inspiring God obey    `On the present troubles in Europe and the rest of the globe. 1744'    Hunt  HM106  p. 66 
Why should frail man at death's approach be shock'd        Hunt  HM106  p. 88 
Why should this earth delight us so?    `The end of the world'    Hunt  HM106  p. 176 
Why stand'st thou discontented? Is not he    `To the declining man, in answer to 30 years'    Hunt  HM106  p. 250 
Wine makes old men young again    `On wine'    Hunt  HM106  p. 2 
Witchcraft may work upon the body much    `Witchcraft'    Hunt  HM106  p. 202 
With cautious heed beware with whom you sort    `Keep good company'    Hunt  HM106  p. 141 
With thee dear soul I could foreverlive    `Tecum vivere amam tecum obeam libens'    Hunt  HM106  p. 5 
Would you be great and dreaded by mankind    `On gypsies'    Hunt  HM106  p. 10 
Would'st thou among the great in favor live    `How to keep in favor with great men'    Hunt  HM106  p. 201 
Ye lilies rise, your sweets disclose!    `An ode on the death of Robert Ld. Petre'    Hunt  HM106  p. 46 
Ye pow'rs who make diviner songs your care    `On Christmas Day'    Hunt  HM106  p. 48 
Ye travellers that pass along this road  Heywood, Rev. [ ]  `The following lines...are designed to be fixed on Conall's gibbet. Richard Brimley murdered 4 April 1739'    Hunt  HM106  p. 53 
Years over years shall roll    `A gypsy prophecy'    Hunt  HM106  p. 13 
You tell me that you apprehend  Gay, John  `The ant in office. To a friend'    Hunt  HM106  p. 34 
You that are great forbear to give offence    `Give no offence'    Hunt  HM106  p. 118 
Young men rejoice; and let thy rising days    `To the young man'    Hunt  HM106  p. 250