Date: November, 1682
"Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led / From cause to cause, to Nature's secret head."
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Date: November, 1682
"In pleasure some their glutton souls would steep; / But found their line too short, the well too deep; / And leaky vessels which no bliss could keep.
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Date: November, 1682
"Thus anxious thoughts in endless circles roll, / Without a centre where to fix the soul."
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Date: November, 1682
"Heav'n's early care prescrib'd for every age; / First, in the soul, and after, in the page."
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Date: November, 1682
"They, who the written rule had never known, / Were to themselves both rule and law alone: / To nature's plain indictment they shall plead; / And, by their conscience, be condemn'd or freed."
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Date: November, 1682
"Then those who follow'd reason's dictates right; Liv'd up, and lifted high their natural light; / With Socrates may see their Maker's Face, / While thousand rubric-martyrs want a place."
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Date: 1683
"This thought such deep impressions makes"
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Date: 1683
"And first, the Presence-Chamber, where does rest, / In fitting state, the Monarch of the breast."
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Date: 1683
"That once Experience would but cross the Jest, / And prove the highest Chamber furnisht best. / For Knowledge (Nature's guide) should quarter there, / And Judgment, her most trusty Councellour."
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Date: 1683
"Invention, Memory, and Wit, should stay; / And all their Treasures in this Turrit lay."
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