Maybe too familiar to be enlightening, but it would be odd to omit them. Is the last an epigram? (Sorry for the odd periods; I can't remember how to make lines indent.)
Sir John Harington, "Treason"
Treason doth never prosper--What's the reason?
If it doth prosper, none dare call it treason.
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, "Epitaph on Charles II"
Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King,
. Whose word no man relies on,
Who never said a foolish thing,
. Nor ever did a wise one.
Isaac Bickerstaffe, "An Expostulation"
When I attempted your pity to move,
. What made you so deaf to my prayers?
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
. But--why did you kick me downstairs?
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