Date: July 25, 1676; 1677
"Therefore keep back the heart you come to restore, mine from this hour shakes off your bonds, and that you may not again enslave it, this day I will put it under the protection of one who is at least as fair as you."
preview | full record— Ravenscroft, Edward (c.1650- c.1700)
Date: 1679
"'Tis he [Satan] that keeps the Soul in Iron Chains, / And robs her of all Sense; lest those great pains / She otherwise might feel, should make her cry / To be deliver'd from his slavery."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1681
"This [sadness] fetters all our Senses, pulleth down / Heav'ns Image, Reason from her rightful Throne / And in her room, by Fancies pow'rful Charm, / Sets up a feigned Ill to work our Harm."
preview | full record— Chamberlayne, Sir James (c.1640-1699)
Date: 1681
"O who shall me deliver whole, / From bonds of this Tyrannic Soul?"
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)