Date: 1684, 1717
The understanding is first to pay court to Queen Fancy, "plainly clad,
But usefully; no Ent'rance to be had"
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
Date: 1684, 1717
The Will, "that Bully of the Mind," is next to pay court to Queen Fancy: "Follies wait on him in a Troop behind; / He meets Reception from the Antick Queen, / Who thinks her Majesty's most honour'd, when / Attended by those fine drest Gentlemen"
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
Date: 1684, 1717
"Reason, the honest Counsellor, this knows, / And into Court with res'lute Virtue goes; / Lets Fancy see her loose irregular Sway, / Then how the flattering Follies sneak away!"
preview | full record— Duke, Richard (1658-1711)
Date: 1717
"My Friend, does she not rule thy Soul?"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1717
"She does! she does! my charming Queen reigns here, / Triumphant in her native Throne, my Heart."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1717
"Against my self my rebel Passions arm; / They bound within my Breast to meet this Victor."
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: 1717
"Were not my Mind enslav'd, were that but free, / How could I brave my Chains?"
preview | full record— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Date: w. 1714, 1719, 1728
"While Hood-wink'd Ignorance her Reign resign'd, / Reason resum'd her Empire o'er the Mind"
preview | full record— Sewell, George (1690-1726)
Date: 1720
"The Goths were not so barbarous a Race / As the grim Rusticks of this motly Place; / Of Reason void, and Thought, whom Int'rest rules, / Yet will be Knaves tho' Nature meant them Fools."
preview | full record— Diaper, William (1686-1717)
Date: 1723, 1740
"My Sister weeping! Tho' her Reason governs, / I judge her Grief for Cassius, by my own."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)