Date: September 1762; 1774

"And every Moralist will find / A ruling passion in the mind: / Which, tho' pent up and barricado'd / Like winds, where Æolus bravado'd; / Like them, will sally from their den, / And raise a tempest now and then; / Unhinge dame Prudence from her plan, / And ruffle all the world of man."

— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)

Date: January, 1764; 1774

"While prose-man deems the verse-man fool, / And measures wit by line and rule, / And, as he lops off fancy's limb, / Turns executioner of whim."

— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)

Date: 1774

"That Bride, if reason may presume / To judge by things past, things to come, / In future times will tread the stage, / Equally form'd for love and rage, / Whilst Pope for comic humour famed, / Shall live when Clive no more is named."

— Lloyd, Robert (bap. 1733, d. 1764)