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Date: 1692
"Nature when first she form'd our Minds took care, / To place the softest, tenderest Passions there. / Hence 'tis, our Thoughts like Tinder, apt to fire, / Are often caught with loving kind Desire."
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)