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A mistress I've lost it is true Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 56

Ah no! Had I ne'er been deceived Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 42

Ah, though I own no oath of love Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 48

Alas! poor Bell! and shall thy coat Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 46v

Apollo, god of harmony divine Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 10

Approach and read, for thou canst read, the lay (incomplete) Gray, Thomas Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 46v

As Jack above a draper's shop Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 20

Asses here to be let for all purposes right Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 27v

Beneath this stone twelve sparrows lie Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 55v

Can I again that form caress Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 39v

Chloris! I swear by all I ever swore Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 40

Dear sir, as you are Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 32

Famed Orpheus' lyre could stop the rivers' course Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 23v

Farewell, great painter of mankind Garrick, David Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 22v

For female ills which Pennington indites Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 47v

Formed with such strong propensity to prate Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 22

Fortune and hope, farewell! I've found a port Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 49

Go virgin kid, with lambent kiss Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 47

Good reader, if you e'er have seen Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 39

Hark! the hollow moaning wind Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 53v

Here I lies Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 56v

Here lies honest Ned Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 22v

Here lies Parker Hall, and what is more rarish Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 37

Here rests a poor unfortunate youth Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 3v

His rest disturbed by noise each morn Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 24

His time was quick his touch was neat Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 20v

I am monarch alone of my shelves Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 45

I am monarch of all I survey (incomplete) Cowper, William Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 45

I am not grieved, my dearest wife Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 37

I am Sir Oracle And when I ope my lips let no dog bark (incomplete) Shakespeare, William Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 35

I have a secret comfort here Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 58v

I heard a judge his tipstaff call Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 27

I wander thro' each dirty street *Blake, William? or Barham, Richard H. (Ingoldsby, Thomas, pseud.)? Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 55

I've heard the tempest howl and roar Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 41v

If hushed the loud whirlwind, that ruffled the deep Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 54

If torn from all we hold most dear Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 38v

In ancient Greece when Orpheus sung Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 24v

In wedlock a species of lottery lies Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 41

It is not so it is not so Harvard MS Eng 692.1 f. 17v

It must be so, Peddle[ i.e. Plato], thou reasonest well Addison, Joseph Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 12v

Long Robin's words are great, 'tis true Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 38

Lucetta's charms our hearts surprise Warton, Thomas, the younger Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 39

Man's but a scholar of a larger school Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 38v

Mary! I believed thee true Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 40

Midst sainted nuns and holy friars Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 35v

My first and second are the lot Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 20

My first for pious use renowned Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 53

My first is an emblem of purity Piozzi, Hester Thrale Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 49v

My first is followed by my second Harvard MS Eng 692.1 f. 20

My first you'll see men often taken Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 31

My name is Prior. On the Cambridge road Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 14v

My pills, cries Bolus, all disorders end Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 24

Now in the heavens pale Luna shone Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 50

Of Brazen Nose ale let Brazen Nose students tell Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 58v

Of thieves the Cantab has no dread Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 56v

Oft to my lyre I strive to sing Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 49v

Oh woman, if by simple wile Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 39v

On resounding pinions borne Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 19

Our God and physicians are honored alike Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 22

Pomposo's words are great 'tis true Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 24

Prithee, Emperor, why dost tarry Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 33

Reader hence! and ask not me Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 44

Reader! tread lightly o'er this sod Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 56v

Reft of thy fame, thy well-earned honors shorn Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 59v

Reluctant thus the merchant quits his home [his ease?] Lillo, George Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 16v

Safe on a lady's arm my first will rest Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 31

Said a cough to a sneeze Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 32v

Say what am I that have the power Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 30

Says a beau to a lady, Pray name, if you can Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 31v

Says Jack to Tom the other day Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 51

Says the Captain so gay as he handed miss down Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 20

She sighed when she bade me farewell Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 57v

Sir Gondibert leapt on his berry-brown steed Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 42v

Six tedious months young Damon sighed Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 57

Soft as yon silver ray that sleeps Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 57

Some people aver that Johnny's a glutton Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 49

Some poets to their heavenly lyres Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 50v

Stern winter's bois'trous rage Congeals the liquid murmur of the floods (incomplete) Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 41v

Stop, traveller! mark the dread decrees of fate Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 56

Th'adorning thee with so much art Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 51v

That to the Fleet you went, poor Jack Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 21v

The dawn was overcast, the morning lowered Harvard MS Eng 692.2 f. 11

The devil has roamed since first the world begun Harvard MS Eng 692.1 f. 40

The lifted skiff Seen like a something from a mountain's height (incomplete) Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 51v

The other day in thoughtless fury Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 21v

The people talk and make a monstrous fuss Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 13v

The times have been That when the brains were out the man would die (incomplete) Shakespeare, William Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 34

There was a paperhanger once, who lived in the Strand, sirs Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 36

Tho still unseen, coy, fleeting maid Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 52

To be called by my name you would greatly disdain Harvard MS Eng 692.1 f. 20

Tom praised his friend who changed his state Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 56v

Tom treated his Doll to a two-pencey hop Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 38v

Twas at the silent, solemn hour Hanbury Williams, Sir Charles, 1708_1759 Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 17 and 31v

Twas droll enough that Goodenough Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 55v

Twas well enough that Goodenough Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 55

Two bulldogs once, of British blood Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 25v

Unstained by vice, the lovely Eve C., C.? Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 47v

We're all in the dumps, for diamonds are trumps Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 44

Weep not for me, my husband dear Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 37

What shadowy form thus dimly seen Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 43

What smiths oft use, if you transpose Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 31

What tho' thy limbs in iron sleep are bound Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 50

What various charms can Celia boast Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 57v

What with the troops they'll meet at Dover Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 33

When any thing abounds, we find Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 46

When fierce Pelides conq'ring spear Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 23v

When from her breast chaste Arria drew the sword Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 51

When half expiring Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 56v

When hungry I view what my soul owns most dear Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 35v

When I loved you I can't but allow Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 58

When Samson full of wrath devised Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 21v

Where yon rock o'erhangs the billow Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 52

Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round Shenstone, William Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 57v

Why, how now, clown, Sir Sapient cries Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 23

Will you come to the bower I have shaded for you Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 58

Ye d__d eternal b__tches, ever young Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 57

Yes, I had a drenching potion Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 48v

Yes, I think I once heard of an amorous youth Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 40v

You, who for reading feel a boundless rage Harvard MS Eng 692 f. 54v