Union First Line Index of English Verse

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


Information
 
Search
 
319 Records Found
First Line Author Title Last Line Library Shelfmark Folio  
 
A certain priest had hoarded up    `The robber robbed'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 103 
A frog that left her native mud    `The frog and the ox'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 357 
A grotto so complete with such design    `To Mrs [ ] on her grotto'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 180 
A knight delights in hardy deeds of arms    `An acrostic [end: Rochester] [= A PRICK]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 221 
A mighty pain to love it is  Cowley, Abraham  `Gold [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 222 
A nymph and a swain to Apollo once prayed  Congreve, William  `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 234 
A papist died as 'twas Jehovah's will    `The ghost'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 105 
A qualm of conscience brings me back again  Dryden, John  `The epilogue'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 220 
A true dissenter here does lie indeed    `An epitaph on Harry Carr'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 96 
A wig that's full    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 243 
A wretch long tortured with disdain    `Love's relief'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 16 
After the fiercest pangs of soft desire    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 49 
Ah traitoress ah ingrate ah faithless mind    `Woman [end: Dryden]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 25 
Ah what pains what racking thoughts he proves  Congreve, William  `A song [end: Ibid.]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 201 
Ah why are not the hearts of women known    `Jealousy'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 209 
Alas alas here free from cares and strife    `An epitaph on an orange merchant who died in his wife's arms the first night'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 250 
All dreams as in old Galen I have read  Dryden, John  `Dreams [end: Ibid:]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 345 
All that's sweet and soft attend    `An epithalamium'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 268 
And hast thou left old Jemmy in the lurch  Brown, Thomas  `A satire on the French king [end: Brown]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 111 
And is Miss Tabby from the world retired  Harison, [ ]  `On the death of a lady's cat [end: Harison]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 10 
As Clelia rested in the shade    `The surprise'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 287 
As he lay on the plain his arm under his head    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 181 
As oft Sir Tradwel as we meet    `An allusion to Martial. Book the first. Epig. the 18th'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 291 
As Venus once Latona's daughter spied    `From Sannazarius'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 10 
At dead of night when stars appear  Prior, Matthew  `The third ode of Anacreon'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 164 
At five this morn when Phoebus raised his head  Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd earl  `Tunbridge Wells [end: Rochester]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 114 
At last 'tis granted what we wished for long  Eusden, Laurence  `To the author of the Tatlers [end: Eusden]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 57 
At length gay morn smiles in the eastern sky    `Morning'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 250 
At the close  Dryden, John  `A storm [end: Ibid:]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 333 
At the sight of my Phyllis from every part    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 199 
Be not puffed up with knighthood friend of mine    `On the knighting of Sir R. B.'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 190 
Beauty thou wild fantastic ape  Cowley, Abraham  `Beauty [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 286 
Behold the woes of matrimonial life  Pope, Alexander  `The wife of Bath. Her prologue from Chaucer'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 32 
Belinda see from yonder flowers    `A gentleman snatching a kiss of a lady'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 46 
Best gift that Heaven's indulgence could bestow    `In praise of memory inscribed to the honourable the Lady Worsely'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 202 
Blessed as the immortal god is he    `An ode'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 188 
Blush not redder than the morning  Lee, Nathiniel  `An epithalamium'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 30 
Born to estates and bred to no intent    `The bravarians'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 44 
Bright beauties who in awful circles sit    `Prologue to Don Sebastian spoken by Mrs Mountford dressed like an officer'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 235 
But come thou goddess fair and free    `Mirth {L'allegro uncorr}'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 158 
But O the joy the mighty ecstasy    `Joy'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 243 
Can this be he could Charles the good the great    `Thoughts occasioned by the sight of an original painting of King Charles the first taken at the time of his trial'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 54 
Careful observers may foretell the hour    `A description of a city shower [out of order in index]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 251 
Celia and I the other day  Prior, Matthew (attr.)  `The lady's looking-glass [end: Prior]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 1 
Chaste pious prudent C[harles] the second  Freke, John?  `The history of the insipids [end: Rochester]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 88 
Come all ye grave old gouty dons    `A hobby-horse ditty to the cow-dance tune of Gallop & S[ ] [With a chorus, `Drink my juniper ale...']'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 227 
Come Celia let's agree at last    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 186 
Come gentle air the Aeolian shepherd said    `On the presenting a fan to a lady which had the history of Cephalus and Procris painted on it'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 169 
Come on ye critics find one fault who dare  Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th earl  `To the honourable E[dward] H[oward] on his poems'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 165 
Conceal fond man conceal the mighty smart    `Corinna'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 174 
Cupid instruct an amorous swain    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 200 
Damon if you will believe me  Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th earl  `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 184 
Discords and plots which have undone our age  Dryden, John  `A prologue to the university of Oxford'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 207 
Discreet what means this word discreet  Cowley, Abraham  `Discretion [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 282 
Disdain and love succeed by turns    `Hate [end: Ibid.]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 156 
Distrust and darkness of a future state    `Death'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 287 
Divine Euripides this tomb we see    `On Euripides by Ion'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 171 
Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes  Dryden, John  `Dreams [end: Ibid:]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 349 
Dum Regina subit constanti pectore mortem    `On the death of Q[ueen] M[ary]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 141 
Fair Amoret is gone astray  Congreve, William  `A hue and cry after fair Amoret [end: Congreve]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 201 
Fairest of thy sex and best    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 225 
Farewell my Tom D[an]by my pimp and my cheat    `D[an]by's farewell'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 106 
Fatally fair they are and in their smiles  Rowe, Nicholas  [from The fair penitent]    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 53 
Fill the bowl with racy wine  Cowley, Abraham  `Epicure [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 270 
Fire water woman are man's ruin    `A Dutch proverb'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 135 
First of mankind that we from Heaven are sent    `Free-will [a dialogue between R, G, and A]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 215 
Five years ago says Story I loved you  Cowley, Abraham  `Inconstancy [end: Ibid.]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 354 
Fly swift ye hours ye measure time in vain    `Absence'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 238 
Fly swift ye hours ye sluggish minutes fly  Duke, Richard?  `To Cµlia [end: Duke.]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 283 
Foolish prater what dost thou  Cowley, Abraham  `Swallow [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 225 
For thee sweet month the groves green liveries wear    `May'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 161 
For wedlock ripe look out and choose thy love    `Hesiod's counsel'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 238 
Friend Dick howe'er it comes into his head  Prior, Matthew  `The ninth epistle of the first book of Horace imitated [end: Prior]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 285 
From France from Spain from Rome I come    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 239 
From frozen climes and endless tracts of snow  Philips, Ambrose  `A description of the winter at Copenhagen'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 211 
From White's and Will's  Philips, Ambrose  `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 21 
Full in the midst of the created space  Dryden, John  `The palace of fame [end: Ibid:]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 347 
Full twenty years and more our labouring stage  Dryden, John  `The prologue to Albion and Albanius'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 153 
Full two yards deep    `An epitaph on the Lord Langford who died on his wedding night'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 196 
Gabriel no blessed spirit more kind or fair  Cowley, Abraham  `Gabriel [end: Cowley] [extract from Cowley's Davideis, Book 2]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 196 
Gallants by all good signs it does appear    `An epilogue'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 182 
Gay Bacchus liking Estcourt's wine  Parnell, Thomas, 1679_1718  `An anacreontic [end: Parnell]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 13 
Gentle air thou breath of lovers    `A sigh [24 and 25 reversed in index]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 12 
Gentle reproofs have long been tried in vain    `Prologue [end: Rochester]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 99 
Get that great gift and talent impudence    `Impudence'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 275 
God bless our gracious sovereign Anne    `The history and fall of the conformity bill'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 136 
Gods life's your gift then season it with such fate    `A prayer'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 160 
Great monarch of the world from whose power springs    `Monarchy in misery [end: K. C. 1]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 260 
Hail reverend Tripos guardian of the law    `Upon Tyburn'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 95 
Happily housed these lares are  Steele, Sir Richard?  `On the Duke of B[ ]'s house. Sic siti lµtantur lares'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 109 
Happy insect what can be  Cowley, Abraham  `Grasshopper'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 274 
Hard fate of lovers subject to our laws    `Woman'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 47 
Haste my reindeer and let us nimbly go    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 162 
He that is rich is every thing that is    `Riches'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 276 
He's no small prince who every day    `Liberty'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 277 
Here lies little [Lundy] a yard deep and more  Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th earl  `An epitaph'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 168 
Here the doctors eagerly dispute  Dryden, John  `Free will [end: Ibid:]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 346 
Here uninterred suspends though not to save    `An epitaph on Felton [end: Buckingham]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 93 
Here's to thee Dick this whining love despise  Cowley, Abraham  `Against love [end: Cowley] [cf. #310]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 47 
Here's to thee Dick this whining love despise  Cowley, Abraham  `An ode [end: Cowley] [cf. #63]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 350 
Hope of all ills that men endure  Cowley, Abraham  `Hope'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 242 
How happy are we    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 247 
How ill the motion with the music suits  *Philips, Ambrose? or Jeffreys, George?  `Upon a company of bad dancers to good music'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 15 
How long will Cynthia own no flame    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 19 
How much egregious Moore are we  Pope, Alexander  `The worms [end: Pope]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 151 
How vain is virtue which directs our ways    `Virtue [cf. #172]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 123 
How vain is virtue which directs our ways    `Virtue [cf. #120]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 187 
Husband thou dull unpitied miscreant    `A satire against marriage'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 93 
I am sorry Sam thou art such a ninny    `To a gentleman that had his pocket picked of a watch and some gold by his mistress. A burlesque letter'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 245 
I feel O laudanum thy power divine  Harison, [ ]  `In praise of Laudanum [end: Ibid.]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 10 
I hate and yet I love thee too  Cowley, Abraham  `Catullus to his mistress [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 44 
I hate fruition now 'tis past  Oldham, John  `Enjoyment [end: Oldham]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 288 
I know your passion friend and well approve    `An epistle to D[ ]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 50 
I looked and I sighed and I wished I could speak  Congreve, William  `A song [end: Congreve]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 203 
I never yet could see that face    `Inconstancy'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 255 
I quaked at heart for fear the royal fashion  Dryden, John  `The epilogue spoken betwixt Antonio and Moryma'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 235bis(?) 
I tried if books would cure my love but found  Cowley, Abraham  `The incurable'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 263 
I'll sing in the praise if you'll lend but an ear    `The Inniskilling regiment'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 124 
I'll sing of heroes and of kings  Cowley, Abraham  `Love'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 270 
I'm not one of your fops who to please a coy lass    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 3 
I'm thinking and it almost makes me mad  Dryden, John  `Epilogue to Amphitrion spoken by Phµdra'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 237 
I've had today a dozen billet doux    `An epilogue'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 355 
I've heard my friend and heard it said by you    `Book the 2d. Elegy the 10th. Ovid'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 298 
If 'tis not love what is it that I feel    `The amorous scrutiny'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 124 
If dearest friend it my good fate might be  Cowley, Abraham  `Si tecum mihi chare Martialis &c. L. 5. Ep. 21. imitated [end: Ibid.] [not in index]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 353 
If gold could wasted life restore    `Gold. A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 356 
If heaven be pleased when sinners cease to sin    `Elegy on Coleman'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 96 
If mortals die as soon as breath departs    `Death'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 56 
If poverty be my upbraided crime  Dryden, John  `Poverty [end: Ibid:]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 343 
If Rome can pardon sins as Romans hold  Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd earl  `Rome's pardons'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 241 
If through that hole    `Answered by King James the first'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 197 
In church the prayer book and the fan displayed    `To Belinda'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 8 
In courts licentious and a shameless stage    `To the supposed author of the Spectator'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 172 
In marriage are two happy things allowed    `Marriage'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 236 
In Phoebus' wit as Ovid said    `To a young lady on her translation of the story of Phoebus and Daphne from Ovid'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 21 
In the first rank of these did Zimri stand  Dryden, John  `Zimri. D[uke] of B[uckingham] [extract from Dryden's Absolom and Achitophel]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 247 
In this thankless world the givers    `Ingratitude'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 257 
In vain my muse would imitate the strains  Rowe, Elizabeth (Singer)  `A pastoral by the author of the anonymous verses before Cato [a dialogue between Phillis and Aminta]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 60 
In ¦sop's new-made world of wit    `Fair warning'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 87 
Intolerable vanity your sex    `Woman'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 29 
Is this blind Cupid the reward    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 254 
It happened on a summer's holiday    ?    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 189 
It is of a nature so subtle    `A maidenhead [end: Dryden]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 44 
John Dryden's enemies were three    `On the death of Mr Dryden'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 106 
Kindness has resistless charms  Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd earl  `Kindness'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 208 
King James say the jacks as other kings do    `On the report of King James's sending a plenipotentiary to the Treaty of Ryswick'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 133 
Kings fight for kingdoms madmen for applause    `Love'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 238 
Know this O man nobility of blood  Dryden, John  `Nobility of blood [end: Ibid:]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 341 
Ladies I hope there's none behind to hear  Dryden, John  `Prologue to the Princess of Cleves'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 219 
Ladies tonight your pity I implore    `Epilogue to Phµdra spoken by Mrs Oldfield who acted Ismena [end: Prior]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 358 
Late as I on my bed reposing lay    `The dream'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 292 
Laws bear the name but money bears the power  Burnaby, William  `Law'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 276 
Let him that will ascend tottering seat    `Jacob's wish'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 278 
Let Rufus weep rejoice stand sit or walk    `An epigram'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 159 
Liberal nature did dispense  Cowley, Abraham  `Beauty [end: Ibid.]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 226 
Long had I known the soft enchanting wiles  Eusden, Laurence  `On a lady who is the most beautiful and witty when she's angry [end: Eusden]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 22 
Look here ye pedants who deserve that name  Eusden, Laurence  `On reading the critique on Milton in the Spectator [end: Eusden]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 25 
Lord of yourself encumber with a wife    `Marriage'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 209 
Madam / We address you today in a very new fashion    `An address'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 109 
Maids need no more their silver pisspots scour    `The pisspot's farewell'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 100 
Make me a bowl a mighty bowl  Oldham, John  `The cup'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 289 
Man at first a drop dilates with heat  Dryden, John  `Man [end: Ibid.] [extract from Dryden's Palamon and Arcite]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 333 
Men without love have oft so cunning grown    `Love'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 45 
Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long  *Kerny, [ ]? or Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th earl?  `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 167 
Milo's from home and Milo being gone    `An epigram' [from Martial]    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 30 
Miss Molly a famed toast was fair and young    `The medicine. A tale for the ladies [end: Tatler]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 118 
Mountown thou sweet retreat from Dublin cares  King, William, 1663_1712  `Mully of Mountown [end: Swift]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 148 
Much time and trouble this poor play has cost  Dryden, John  `The epilogue'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 232 
My days have been so wondrous free  Parnell, Thomas  `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 9 
My grateful thoughts so throng to get abroad    `Thanks'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 241 
My time O ye muses was happily spent  Byrom, John  `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 192 
Nan and Frank two quondam friends    `The combat. The argument'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 142 
Nature in pity has denied you shape    `To Flavia'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 8 
Nay then the Devil take all love if I  Sedley, Sir Charles  `Elegy the fifth. Book the second. Ovid'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 294 
Near the Cymmerians in his dark abode  Dryden, John  `The palace of sleep [end: Ibid:]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 337 
Near to the Rose where punks in numbers flock    `The playhouse'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 130 
Neither pills nor laxatives I like  Dryden, John  `Physic [end: Ibid:]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 345 
Night love and wine no moderation bear    `Love'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 288 
Night to lovers' joys a friend    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 31 
No longer Orpheus shall thy sacred strains    `Epitaphs. On Orpheus written by Antipater [group of 6 epitaphs begins]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 170 
No more severely kind affect    `To a jealous mistress'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 20 
No no vain world thy joys are frail    `The meditation'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 5 
Noble generous great and good    `A hue and cry after a stray heart'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 188 
Not I I never vainly durst pretend    `Book the 2d. Elegy the 4th. Ovid'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 299 
Now did the bagpipe in hoarse notes begin    `The smock-race at Finglas'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 26 
Now hardly here and there an hackney coach    `Morning'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 258 
Now luck for us and a good hearty pit  Dryden, John  `Prologue to The Spanish Friar'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 259 
Now Phoebus rose and with his early beams    `Araminta. A town eclogue [end: Ibid.]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 67 
Now thus it is when tender virgins burn    `Woman'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 11 
O damned trade of versifying    `The complaint of the poets in Hell'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 278 
O Harry canst thou find no subject fit    `A letter from J[emmy] P[enn] to Col. H[eveningham]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 127 
O how pleasant is't how sweet    `Anacreon imitated'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 4 
O Venus beauty of the skies  Philips, Ambrose  `A hymn to Venus'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 157 
O what man's condition can be worse  Cowley, Abraham  `Avarice [end: Ibid.]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 253 
Of age's avarice I cannot see    `Covetousness in old age [end: Denham]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 52 
Oft am I by the women told  Cowley, Abraham  `Age'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 264 
Or I'm a very dunce or womankind  Cowley, Abraham  `Women's superstition [end: Ibid.]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 48 
Our church alas as Rome objects does want    `Satire upon the Romish confessors [end: Dryden]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 194 
Our play's a parallel the holy league  Dryden, John  `Prologue to The Duke of Guise'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 231 
Our yesterday's tomorrow now is gone  Cowley, Abraham  `Tomorrow [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 2 
Panthea long had felt love's pleasing smart  Gay, John  `Panthea [end: Gay]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 63 
Passion by long absence does improve    `Absence'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 70 
Perceivest thou not the process of the year  Dryden, John  `The year [end: Ibid:]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 338 
Phyllis the young the fair the gay    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 24 
Pious Selinda goes to prayers  Congreve, William  `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 197 
Poor Job lost all the comforts of his life    `An epigram on Job travestied by the city bard'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 190 
Pray charming Sylvia do not think you raise    `A lover to his fat mistress'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 46 
Prithee Jerry be quiet cease railing in vain    `The benefit of the theatre'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 134 
Proud with the spoils of royal cully  Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th earl  `On the Countess of D[ ]r'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 110 
See Sylvia see a captive swain    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 30 
She loves and she confesses too  Cowley, Abraham  `Honour [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 280 
Since love has kindled in our eyes    `From a platonic gentleman to his mistress'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 285 
So bright is thy beauty so charming thy song    `On a handsome woman with a fine voice but very covetous and proud'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 8 
So fair a form with such devotion joined    `Written in a lady's prayer book'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 10 
So fair a semblance of so fair a face    `To a painter upon his drawing a lady's picture'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 16 
Some dull philosopher when he hears me say  Cowley, Abraham  `The soul [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 47 
Still in our ears Andromache complains    `On Homer by Alpheus of Mytilene'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 170 
Still to one end they both so justly drew  Cowley, Abraham  `Friendship [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 253 
Strephon the young the loveliest swain    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 17 
Superfluous pomp and wealth I not desire    `Golden mean'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 277 
Sure there's a dearth of wit in this dull town  Dryden, John  `The prologue to King Arthur [end: Dryden]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 154 
Tell me O Lydia for by heaven I swear    `An imitation of the 8th ode of the 1st L. of Horace, Lydia dic per omnes &c.'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 358 
That I do with humble bows no more  Cowley, Abraham  `Quod te nomine? &c. Martial [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 224 
That Niobe to stone was changed    `From Anacreon'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 187 
The Cestrian roach will prove a fine fish    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 110 
The dazzling lustre of your skies    `The masque'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 287 
The devil take those foolish men  Cowley, Abraham  `The resolution [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 264 
The fearful passenger who travels late  Dryden, John  `Cantabit vacuus coram Latrone Viator [end: Dryden]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 45 
The first physicians by debauch were made    `Exercise'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 159 
The gospel and law allow monarchs their due    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 108 
The hoary fool who many days    `Tomorrow [end: Prior]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 31 
The husband's the pilot the wife is the ocean  Brown, Thomas  `Verses sent to a friend who twice ventured his carcass in marriage [end: Brown]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 223 
The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence    `Absence'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 80 
The judge removed though he's no more my lord  Dryden, John  `Prologue to Don Sebastian spoken by a woman'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 271 
The labouring bee when his sharp sting is gone  Dryden, John  `Prologue to Amphytrion spoken by Mrs Bracegirdle'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 265 
The pale assistants on each other stared  Dryden, John  `Amazement [end: Ibid.] [extract from Dryden's Theodore and Honoria]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 333 
The poets tell us idle tales to please us    `Upon King James pistolling a mastiff dog at Banbury in his last progress'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 121 
The power of love  Dryden, John  `Love [end: Dryden] [extract from Dryden's Palamon and Arcite]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 332 
The proverb holds that to be wise and love    `Love [end: Dryden]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 6 
The queen deceased so pleased the king so grieved    `In English [translation of previous; not listed separately in index]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 141 
The rich have still a jibe in store    `Poverty'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 246 
The sceptics think 'twas long ago  Prior, Matthew  `The ladle [end: Ibid.]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 360 
The spacious firmament on high    `An ode. Written upon the heavens declare the glory of God...'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 51 
The thirsty earth soaks up the rain  Cowley, Abraham  `Drinking [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 273 
The very bees O sweet Menander hung    `On Menander the author anonymous'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 171 
The world / Where nothing without sorrow's to be had    `World'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 187 
There is a place which man most high does near  Cowley, Abraham  `Fancy [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 2 
There is not one base act which men commit    `The 13th satire of Juvenal imitated'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 302 
These ills by none but woman could be done    `Love-sick [end: Dryden]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 3 
Thespis the first professor of our art  Dryden, John  `The prologue at Oxford 1680'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 198 
This tomb be thine Anacreon all around    `On Anacreon by Antipater'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 170 
Those envious flakes came down in haste    `On some snow that melted on a lady's breast'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 8 
Thou art woman a true copy of the first  Otway, Thomas, 1652_1685  `Woman [end: Otway]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 15 
Thou rising sun whose gladsome ray    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 161 
Though actors cannot much of learning boast  Dryden, John  `A prologue to the university of Oxford'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 213 
Though much concerned to leave my good old friend    `The 3d satire of Juvenal imitated'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 316 
Thus 'twas of old then Israel felt the rod    `To the haters of popery by what names or titles soever dignified or distinguished'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 107 
Thy all is but a show    `Woman [end: Milton]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 19 
Time was when we were sowed and first began  Dryden, John  `Man [end: Ibid:]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 339 
Tis not indeed my talent to engage    `Protestations of friendship'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 281 
To Dryden's muse I early homage paid  Eusden, Laurence  `On a dispute with a gentleman about the excellence of some of Mr Dryden's writings when a lady being asked her opinion blamed 'em [end: Eusden]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 56 
To enjoy your life in happiness    `Martial. lib. 10. Ep. 47 imitated. Vitam quµ faciant Beatiorem iocundissime Martialis hµc sunt &c'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 15 
To thee dear Tom myself addressing    `A dialogue between Sir John Pooley and Thomas Killigrew poet'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 6 
Tomorrow you will live you always cry  Cowley, Abraham  `Tomorrow [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 4 
Too late alas I must confess  Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd earl  `A song [end: Rochester]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 229 
Torment me with this horrid rage no more    `Jealousy'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 210 
Trust me dear George could I in verse but show  Philips, Ambrose  `An epistle by Mr Philips in answer to a friend who desired him to write upon the death of King William'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 59 
Two murmuring streams in wild meanders flow  Eusden, Laurence  `The rivers of love [end: Eusden]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 70 
Two travellers an oyster found    `The plaintiff and defendant'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 102 
Two Welshmen partners in a cow    `The bargain'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 101 
Underneath this marble hearse    `On the Countess of Pembroke'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 160 
Underneath this myrtle shade  Cowley, Abraham  `Epicure'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 273 
Virtue is the plague of human life  Dryden, John  `Wife [end: Dryden] [extract from Dryden's Aureng-Zebe, Act II]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 104 
We act by fits and starts like drowning men  Dryden, John  `An epilogue'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 205 
We hope to find    `Woman'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 44 
We read in profane and sacred records  Marvell, Andrew  `A dialogue between two horses. The introduction [end: Marvell]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 81 
Well then sir you shall know how far extend  Cowley, Abraham  `Vota tui breviter &c. Mar[tial] [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 229 
Were none of you gallants e'er driven so hard  Dryden, John  `Prologue for the women when they acted at the old house Lincolns-Inn Fields'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 248 
What can be sweeter than our native home    `Wife'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 210 
What mean the wonders can such beams of light    `Upon a beautiful lady with cataracts in both eyes. By a gentleman with an impediment in his speech'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 18 
What store of jibing scoffs are thrown  Oldham, John  `Poverty [end: Oldham] [extract from Oldham's `Satyr in imitation of the third of Juvenal']'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 276 
What's love to you?  Dryden, John  `Age [end: Ibid.] [extract from Dryden's Aureng-Zebe, Act II]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 104 
When Brunswick first appeared each honest heart    `The royal progress'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 175 
When chance or cruel business parts us two  Cowley, Abraham  `Friendship in absence [end: Ibid.]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 351 
When crowding folks with strange ill faces  Prior, Matthew  `To Mr Fleetwood Shepherd [end: Prior]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 97 
When daring Blood his rent to have regained  Marvell, Andrew  `On Blood's stealing the crown'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 141 
When first the Tatler to a mute was turned  Tate, Nahum  `On the Spectator [end: Tate]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 169 
When God almighty had his palace framed    `Purgatory'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 96 
When I sigh by my mistress and gaze on those eyes    `Love's antidote'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 3 
When I was young and passion bore the sway    `The admiration ceased'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 45 
When Israel first provoked the living lord  Dorset, Charles Sackville, 6th earl  `An allusion'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 106 
When Job contending with the devil I saw    `Occasioned by the news of Sir R. Blackmore's paraphrase on Job being in the press'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 191 
When Lesbia first I saw so heavenly fair  Congreve, William  `Lesbia [end: Congreve]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 200 
When Mars the Lemnian darts surveyed    `The forty-fifth ode of Anacreon'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 12 
When nymphs were coy and love could not prevail    `To a lady on her parrot'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 258 
When Tewkesbury mustard does travel abroad  Sheppard, Sir Fleetwood?  `A prophecy'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 230 
When the last of all knights is the first of all knaves    `The answer'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 230 
When wintry blasts and ruffling storms expire    `The spring'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 71 
Wherever I am or whatever I do  Dryden, John  `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 249 
Whether alone or in the harlot's lap    `Luxury and avarice'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 266 
Whilst on their wings the gentle zephyrs bear    `St Julian's prayer'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 73 
Who knows what adverse fortune may befall    `Hope'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 210 
Who names that lost thing love without a tear    `Love [end: Tatler] [4 lines from `Artemisia to Chloe']'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 49 
Whoever in a mean abode presumes    `On a tobacco box'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 28 
Why d'ye with such disdain refuse  Vanbrugh, Sir John  `To a lady more cruel than fair [end: Vanbrook]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 183 
Why should a foolish marriage vow  Dryden, John  `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 53 
Why will Florella when I gaze    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 22 
Wind gentle evergreen to form a shade    `On Sophocles by Symonides'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 171 
With a loud voice through every field and wood    `The enquiry of Venus after Cupid'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 163 
With double force a woman always moves  Henly, [ ]?  `Woman [end: Henly]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 2 
With sickly actors and an old house too    `A prologue'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 204 
Woman thou worst of all church plagues farewell    `On the divorces by parliament'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 87 
Women are governed by a stubborn fate    `Woman'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 5 
Women with a mischief to their kind  Dryden, John  `Woman [end: Ibid:]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 340 
Would you be free 'tis your chief wish you say  Cowley, Abraham  `Vis fieri liber? &c. Mar[tial] [end: Cowley]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 206 
Ye powers implacable and dread    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 255 
Ye virgin powers defend my heart    `A song'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 52 
You ask my friend how I can Delia prize  Eusden, Laurence  `To Mr. [ ] [end: Ibid.]'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 23 
You maidens and wives and young widows rejoice    `Upon four new physicians repairing to Tunbridge'    U. Chicago  MS f553  p. 184