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A Radical War Song
Thomas Babbington Macaulay
In England's rich...
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An Elegy Upon The Death Of The Dean Of St. Paul's, Dr. John
Thomas Carew
Thou hadst been their exchequer, and no more
They each in other's dust had rak'd for...
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Elegy XVIII: Love's Progress
John Donne
That way which that exchequer looks must go:
He which doth not, his error is as great
As who by clyster gave the stomach...
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Elijah's Mantle
George Canning
Resolve, 'bove sordid self, to soar,
Amidst Exchequer gold be...
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Granta Victrix.
Edward Woodley Bowling
Herculean Lowe,
(Not he of the Exchequer),
So strong, that he with ease could row
A race in a...
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On Queen Anne's Peace, Anno 1713
Thomas Parnell
On Fancy's airy stage; returning Trade,
A sunk Exchequer fill'd, an Army paid,
The fields with men, the men with plenty bless'd,
The towns with riches,...
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Peinture. A Panegyrick To The best Picture Of Friendship, M
Richard Lovelace
Natures exchequer shuffled in this our ball,
Peinture her...
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Peinture. A Panegyrick To The best Picture Of Friendship, Mr. Pet. Lilly.
Richard Lovelace
Natures exchequer shuffled in this our ball,
Peinture her...
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Said I to Myself, Said I
William Schwenck Gilbert
In Exchequer, Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, or Divorce,
Have perjured themselves as a matter of course
(Said...
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The Forgotten Army.
Alan Parry-Booth
But the national exchequer
Was in a parlous state
 There was no way the state could give
These lads a proper...
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The Haughty Actor
William Schwenck Gilbert
- I'll gain my end,
And save my poor...
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The Merchant of Venice,: A Legend of Italy
Richard Harris Barham
In English Exchequer-bills full half a million,
Not 'kites,' manufactured to cheat and inveigle,
But the right...
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To the Right Hon. My Lady Anne Lovelace
Richard Lovelace
Hath impoverisht Love's Queen;
To th' Exchequer of all honour
(All take pensions but from her);
To the taper of the thore
Which the...
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Trial by Jury
William Schwenck Gilbert
Is this the court of the...
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