Index of First Lines.
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A Constancy in Love I'll prise vi 304
A Curse upon that faithless Maid iii 396
A Den where Tygers make the passage good vi 252
A Lady lovely, with a charming Meen vi 261
A Lovers Rage and Jealousie vi 330
A Neighbouring Villa which derives its name vi 237
A Palace that is more uneasy far vi 269
A Pox of the States-man that's witty i 397; vi 211
A Pox upon this needless Scorn i 188; vi 190
A thousand Martyrs I have made vi 305
After our showing Play of mighty Pains ii 192
After these Debates of Love vi 73
Ah! charming Object of my wishing Thought! vi 19
Ah! Charmion! shroud those killing Eyes iv 386
Ah! cruel Love! when will thy Torments cease? vi 307
Ah! false Amyntas, can that Hour i 273
Ah hapless sex! who bear no charms vi 348
Ah! he who first found out the way vi 25
Ah, Jenny, gen your Eyes do kill ii 253
Ah, Sylvia! if I still pursue vi 198
Ah! what can mean that eager Joy vi 192
Ah! wonder not if I appear vi 46
Alas! and must the Sun decline vi 61
Alexis, since you'll have it so vi 349
All Joy to Mortals, Joy and Mirth iii 457
All Trembling in my Arms Aminta lay vi 241
All you Beauties and Attractions vi 342
Aminta, fear not to confess vi 38
Amyntas, that true hearted Swaine iii 321; vi 164
Amyntas, if your Wit in Dreams vi 174
Amyntas led me to a Grove i 255; vi 163
Amyntas, whilst you vi 173
And how, and how, Mesieurs! what do you say vi 382
And sighing said, ah Gods! have you vi 258
And tho' I do not speak, alas vi 251
As Country Squire, who yet had never known iii 5
As free as wanton Winds I liv'd vi 56
As Rivals of each other jealous prove iv 319
As when a Conqu'ror does in Triumph come vi 175
As when a Monarch does in Triumph come vi 393
As young Selinda led her Flock vi 375
At last, dear Lysidas, I'l set thee Free vi 224
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Beauty like Wit, can only charm when new ii 106
Beneath the kind protecting Laurel's shade vi 63
Beyond the Merit of the Age vi 204
Blest Age! when ev'ry Purling Stream vi 138
By Heaven 'tis false, I am not vain vi 43
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Cease, cease, Aminta, to complain vi 370
Cease, cease, that vain and useless scorn vi 326
Cease to defend your Amorous Heart vi 319
Cease your Wonder, cease your Guess iii 233
Celinda, who did Love Disdain iii 55; vi 209
Ceres, Great Goddess of the bounteous Year vi 177
Cold as my solid Chrystal is vi 99
Come, my fair Cloris, come away vi 156
Come, my Phillis, let us improve vi 192
Crudo Amore, Crudo Amore ii 361
Cupid, my darling Cupid, and my Joy vi 387
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Damon, altho you waste in vain vi 378
Damon, I cannot blame your Will ii 111; vi 165
Damon, if you'd have me true vi 36
Damon, if your Heart and Flame vi 27
Damon, if your Love be true vi 31
Damon, my Watch is just and new vi 79
Damon, the young, the am'rous, and the true vi 96
Darling of Mars! Bellona's Care! vi 78
Dear Silvia, let's no farther strive vi 212
Dull Love no more thy Senceless Arrows prize vi 208
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Enough kind Heaven! to purpose I have liv'd vi 171
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Fain I would have leave to tell vi 102
Fair Goddess of my just Desire vi 81
Fair Ladies, pity an Unhappy Maid vi 399
Fair lovely Maid, or if that Title be vi 363
Fair Nymph, remember all your Scorn (J. Wright) ii 183
Faithful Lisander, I your Vows approve vi 259
Farewel, my little charming Boy! vi 310
Farewell the Great, the Brave and Good vi 144
Farewel the World and mortal Cares ii 394
Fly, Lysidus, this hated Place vi 340
Fond Love thy pretty Flatteries cease vi 267
For far less Conquest we have known vi 87
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Gallants, our Poets have of late so us'd ye iii 285
Gallants, you have so long been absent hence ii 6; iv 309
Give me the Man that's hollow vi 391
Go, happy Lovers, perfect the desires vi 282
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Had'st thou, Amintas, liv'd in that great age vi 360
Hail, Beauteous Prophetess, in whom alone (Kendrick) vi 296
Hail, Learned Bard! who dost thy power dispence vi 379
Hang Love, for I will never pine iii 309
Heav'n for Sovereignty has made your Form vi 98
Heaven save ye, Gallants; and this hopeful Age (Dryden) iv 223
Here at your Feet, we tribute pay i 280
Her mourning languid Eyes are rarely shown vi 265
He that would have the Passion be vi 73
He that wou'd precious time improve vi 326
Him whom you see so awful and severe vi 235
Hiss 'em, and cry 'em down, 'tis all in vain i 329
Honour's a mighty Phantom! which around vi 278
How shall a Lover come to know vi 51
How strangely does my Passion grow iii 160
How strongly does my Passion flow vi 189
How, to thy Sacred Memory, shall I bring vi 405
How vain have prov'd the Labours of the Stage (Otway) ii 201
How we shall please ye now I cannot say vi 398
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I am the Ghost of him who was a true Son i 341
I Come not a Petitioner to sue iii 175
If when the God of Day retires vi 200
I here and there o'erheard a Coxcomb cry iv 115
In a Cottage by the Mountain iv 189
I know You, and I must confess vi 403
Injurious Pin, how durst thou steal so nigh? vi 392
I Never mourn'd my Want of Wit, 'till now (Cotton) vi 6
In Phillis all vile Jilts are met ii 260
In the Blooming Time o'th' year vi 193
In vain, dear Youth, you say you love vi 196
In vain I have labour'd the Victor to prove iv 153; vi 173
In vain to Woods and Deserts I retire vi 389
In vain we labour to reform the Stage i 115
Iris, to keep my Soul entire and true vi 42
Iris, to spare what you call Flattery vi 94
Its Torrent has no other source vi 253
It was too much, ye Gods, to see and hear vi 207
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Keep, lovely Maid, the Softness in your Eyes vi 101
Know all ye Whigs and Tories of the Pit iii 99
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Ladies, the Prince was kind at last iv 212
Let murmuring Lovers no longer repine iii 454
Let Love no more your Heart inspire vi 314
Long, and at vast Expence, th' industrious Stage iii 393
Long has Wit's injur'd Empire been opprest (J. Cooper) vi 117
Long have we turn'd the point of our just Rage (A Person of Quality) iii 278
Long have our Priests condemn'd a wicked Age vi 343
Love in Fantastique Triumph sat ii 9; vi 163
Love is a God, whose charming Sway vi 34
Love, of all Joys, the sweetest is vi 54
Love ought alone the Mystick Knot to tie vi 82
Love when he Shoots abroad his Darts vi 230
Lovers, if you wou'd gain a Heart vi 24
Lydia, Lovely Maid, more fair vi 212
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Make haste, Amintas, come away ii 35
Make hast! make hast! my miserable soul vi 361
Melinda, who had never been vi 29
Mourn, Mourn, ye Muses, all your loss deplore vi 368
Must we eternal Martyrdom pursue? vi 249
My Amoret, since you must know vi 153
My Damon, if your Heart be kind vi 41
My Damon, tho' I stint your Love vi 33
My Plot, I fear, will take but with a few ii 299
My Present's delicate and new vi 15
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No, Delia, no: What Man can range (Gildon) iv 343
No! give me all, th' impatient Lover cries vi 107
No more, Lucinda, ah! expose no more (Cheek) iii 224
Not to sigh and be tender vi 312
Now, my fair Tyrant, I despise your Pow'r vi 254
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O Iris! While you thus can charm vi 22
O Jealousy! thou Passion most ingrate! vi 70
O thou that dost excel in Wit and Youth! vi 106
O Wondrous condescention of a God! vi 372
Oft in my Jealous Transports I wou'd cry vi 271
Oh, Damon, if thou ever wert vi 345
Oh! fond remembrance! do not bring vi 341
Oh! how at ease my Heart would live vi 72
Oh! how soft it is to see vi 332
Oh! how that Negligence becomes your Air! vi 104
Oh! how the Hand the Lover ought to prize vi 103
Oh Iris! boast that one peculiar Charm vi 101
Oh Iris! let my sleeping Hours be fraught vi 66
Oh! Love that stronger art than Wine iii 231
Oh! what Pleasure 'tis to find vi 325
Oh with what Pleasure did I pass away vi 262
Oh, wonder of thy Sex! Where can we see vi 123
Olives are never fading seen vi 85
Once more my Muse is blest; her humble Voice (Jenkins) vi 9
One day the Amorous Lysander vi 178
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Pan, grant that I may never prove vi 177
Perhaps I am mistaken here vi 16
Philander, since you'll have it so vi 58
Philander was a jolly Swain ii 247
Phillis, whose Heart was Unconfin'd i 148; vi 191
Poets are Kings of Wit, and you appear i 212
Poor Damon! Art thou caught? Is't ev'n so? vi 185
Poor Lost Serena, to Bemoan vi 186
Poor Lycidus, for shame arise vi 306
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Rejoyce! my new made happy Soul, Rejoyce! vi 260
Remember, Damon, while your Mind vi 16
Rise, Cloris, charming Maid, arise! iii 191
Rivals 'tis call'd, a Village where vi 268
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Say, my fair Charmer, must I fall vi 255
Scorning religion all thy life time past vi 400
She blows the Youthful Lovers flame vi 245
She that wou'd rack a Lover's Heart vi 70
Since with old Plays you have so long been cloy'd iii 188
Sincerity! thou greatest Good! vi 49
Sir Timothy, Gallants, at last is come (Ravenscroft) vi 49
Sitting by yonder River side (made by a Gentleman) iv 44
Slight unpremeditated Words are borne vi 22
So hard the times are, and so thin the Town ii 411
Such Charms of Youth, such Ravishment vi 231
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Take back that Heart, you with such Caution give vi 202
Take heed, my Damon, in the Grove vi 47
Tell me; oh, tell me! Charming Prophetess vi 109
Tell me! What can he design vi 18
That Beauty I ador'd before vi 364
That Coxcomb can ne're be at ease vi 311
That Love may all Perfection be vi 92
That Love's my Conduct where I go vi 14
That Love, the great Instructor of the Mind vi 14
That tho' the Favours of the Fair vi 17
That when a Lover ceases to be blest vi 20
The banisht Cavaliers! a Roving Blade! i 105
The Devil take this cursed plotting Age ii 307
The God of Love beholding every day vi 315
The Grove was gloomy all around vi 183
The happy Minute's come, the Nymph is laid iii 52
The Houses there, retir'd in Gardens are vi 250
The nobler Lover, who would prove vi 77
The peaceful Place where gladly I resort vi 397
The Smiles, the Graces, and the Sports vi 84
The Vizor's off, and now I dare appear i 424
Then do not let your murm'ring Heart vi 72
There they shall all together reign vi 70
This is the Coast of Africa vi 228
This Little, Silent, Gloomy Monument vi 381
This River's call'd Pretension; and its source vi 244
Thither all the Amorous Youth repair vi 239
Tho' Damon every Virtue have vi 18
Thô my Heart were full of Passion vi 336
Tho', Silvia, you are very fair vi 71
Those Eyes that can no better Conquest make vi 86
Thou great Young Man! Permit amongst the Crowd vi 166
Thou Grief of my Heart, and thou Pearl of my Eyes iv 59
Thou one continu'd Sigh! all over Pain vi 111
Thou Wonder of thy Sex! Thou greatest Good! (G. J.) vi 9
Though the Young prize Cupid's Fire iv 352
Thus both resolve to break their Chain vi 71
Time and Place you see conspire iv 353
Tis all eternal Spring around vi 283
'Tis not enough to reade and to admire (J. C.) vi 119
Tis not your saying that you love vi 397
'Tis that which leads those captivated Hearts vi 99
'Tis wonderous Populous from the excess vi 244
To celebrate your Praise, no Muse can crown (Rich. Faerrar) vi 8
To speak of thee no Muse will I invoke vi 121
To thee, dear Paris, Lord of my Desires vi 214
'Twas there, I saw my Rival take vi 308
'Twas vain for Man the Laurels to persue (J. Adams) vi 120
'Twas when the Fields were gay vi 188
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We all can well admire, few well can praise (J. W.) vi 131
We charg'd you boldly in our first advance iii 381
Weep, weep, Lysander, for the lovely Maid vi 280
Well! you expect a Prologue to the Play iv 121
We pity such as are by Tempest lost vi 395
We're grown Impatient to be out of pain iv 398
We write not now, as th' antient Poets writ iv 8
What Art thou, oh! thou new-found pain? vi 356
What differing Passions from what once I felt vi 238
What doleful crys are these that fright my sence vi 151
What is the recompence of War iv 202
What Life can compare with the jolly Town-Rake's (Motteux) iv 331
What mean those Amorous Curles of Jet? vi 195
What means this Knot, in Mystick Order Ty'd vi 182
When Damon first began to love i 33
When Jemmy first began to Love vi 165
When Love shall two fair objects mix vi 339
When Maidens are young and in their Spring iii 429
When old Rome's Candidates aspir'd to Fame vi 407
When th'Almighty Powers th'Universe had fram'd (H. Watson) vi 136
When the sad news was spread (F. N. W.) vi 132
When to the charming Bellinda I came vi 322
When two Hearts entirely love vi 90
When you Love, or speak of it vi 321
Where should a Lover hide his Joys vi 89
While, Iris, I at distance gaze vi 371
While this poor Homage of our Verse we give (N. Tate) vi 7
Whilst happy I Triumphant stood vi 148
Whither, young Damon, whither in such hast vi 350
Who, but a Lover, can express vi 20
Why, Amarillis, dost thou walk alone vi 383
Why, fair Maid, are you uneasy vi 324
Why shou'd that faithless wanton give vi 309
With late Success being blest, I'm come again ii 98
With our old Plays, as with dull Wife it fares iii 462
With Rigor Arm your self (I cry'd) vi 272
With that assurance we to day address vi 401
With you, unhappy Eyes, that first let in vi 225
Wits, like Physicians, never can agree i 7
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Ye bold Magicians in Philosophy (Anon.) vi 124
Yes, the fair Object, whom you praise vi 60
You ask me, Phillis, why I still pursue vi 394
Young Jemmy was a Lad vi 210