Potential Titles: Knave

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And knew what knave I was - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Mammon makes but fools or knaves - Aion "The Land of Slaves" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]

Before tumultuous chattering knaves - Eric Dickinson "Three Sonnets II"

Knaves who rejoiced in our disasters - Thomas Dunn English "Jack, the Regular" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]

Who holds friendship with a knave - John Gay "Fable XXII: Old Dame and Cats" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Less were their train of knaves and fools - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Fools are the game which knaves pursue - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

The knaves own all her votaries for slaves - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Knaves are busier fools - Oliver Wendell Holmes "A Rhymed Lesson" (selections)

From thieving statesman down to petty knave - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]

Yesterday I played the knave - Don Marquis "This Is Another Day"

By knaves and laws upbraided - "The Martyrs' Monument" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]

A recantation proved the knave no fool - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Mark the knave who swears he's free - "Remember Traitors" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Sets up knaves and murders kings - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

Lost to the rebel knave, Jack Frost - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"

Some knavery in desire - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"


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