Date: 1702

"Shall then the seeming Beauty of this thing / So dis-ingage from Duty to the King / Of Glory, who alone should rule in Man? / The Heart should be his Throne."

— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)

Date: 1702

"Reason, that honours Mankind more than Beast, / Gives forth its Laws and Dictates in each Breast"

— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)

Date: 1702

"Modesty, that in their Bosom reigns, / Detests and loaths whatever spots or stains"

— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)

Date: 1702

The "true Noble Mind / Conquers a Wrong by Patience, is resign'd / For Vertue's sake to bear, that Reason may / Be Re-enthron'd, and Passion pass away"

— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)

Date: w. 1682, 1702

"Chastity, sits as with awful Grace, / Enthron'd i'th' Heart, and sweetly in the Face / Holds forth its Ensign"

— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)

Date: w. 1678, 1702

"[B]e not over-curious to express / Too much Exactness in an outward Dress; / Lest peevish Passion should too oft prevail, / To banish Reason from its Throne, and vail / Sound Judgment"

— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)

Date: w. 1678, 1702

"[I]n thy Heart reveal / Eternal Life, as the abiding Seal / Of his endeared Love"

— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)

Date: 1706

"Not in the Court of Conscience, Sir."

— Centlivre [née Freeman; other married name Carroll], Susanna (bap. 1669?, d. 1723)

Date: 1719-1720, 1725

"But when he consider'd how much he had struggled, and how far he had been from being able to repel Desire, he began to wonder that it cou'd ever enter into his Thoughts, that there was even a Possibility for Woman, so much stronger in her Fancy, and weaker in her Judgment, to suppress the Influe...

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1719-1720, 1725

"I can no longer withstand the too powerful Magick of your Eyes, nor deny any Thing that charming Tongue can ask; but now's the Time to prove your self a Heroe! subdue your self, as you have conquer'd me! be satisfied with vanquishing my Soul, fix there your Throne, but leave my Honour free!"

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)