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"The Humour of the Age. A Comedy."
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Date: 1701
"Contemplation is but an Overture to Madness, a discontented Temper renders the World Odious; and Melancholy, like Sleep, steals insensibly upon our Spirits; and when Solitude has contracted our Thoughts into a too serious Meditation, we fall into a Labyrinth of foolish Notions, that quite craze ...
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)