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A Mock Song
Richard Lovelace
Not a court ape's left to confute us;
  Then let your voyces rise high,
  As your colours did flye,
  And...
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AN ELEGY Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus
Henry King
Those may like num'rous witnesses confute
Our unbelieving soules, that would dispute
And doubt this truth for...
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Conversation Galante
T. S. Eliot
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute—"
  And—"Are we then so...
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Hudibras, Part I (excerpts)
Samuel Butler
On either which he would dispute,
  Confute, change hands, and still confute,
  He'd undertake to prove, by force
  Of argument, a man's...
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Hudibras: Part 1 - Canto I
Samuel Butler
On either which he would dispute,
Confute, change hands, and still confute,
He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no...
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Introduction To The True-Born Englishman
Daniel Defoe
And downright English, Englishmen...
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Morning
John Crowe Ransom
Slack of his office to confute the fogs
Lay sick abed; but I, inured to duty,
Sat for my...
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Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam
William Habington
And all the pride of life...
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On Ink
Jonathan Swift
And show where they can best...
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Suum Cuique
John Dryden
How to confute what formerly he...
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The Metaphysical Sectarian
Samuel Butler
On either which he would dispute,
Confute, change hands, and still...
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To A Lady Who Was Libell'd.
Mary Barber
With Ease the clearest Truths confute,
With Ease the purest Worth pollute;
Check ev'ry Virtue in its Course,
And taint, impetuous,...
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To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys
Henry King
Some more like you might pow'rfully confute
Th' opposers of Priests marriage by the...
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To Nanine
Ambrose Bierce
Of happiness, or Reason to confute
The pessimist philosophy of...
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To the Noblest and Best of Ladies, the Countess of Denbigh
Richard Crashaw
Come once the conquering way, not to confute
But kill this rebel-word, 'irresolute,'
That so, in spite of all this peevish strength...
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