Date: 1691
"By Law and Inclination doubly joyn'd, / Both acted by one Sympathetick Mind. / Whom Wedlock's Silken Chains as softly tye, / As that which when asunder snapt, we dye, / Which makes the Soul and Body's wondrous harmony."
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Date: 1692
A "soft Enchantress of the mind" may have to resign the empire of her lover's heart
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Date: 1692
"A Nobler, A Diviner Guest" may take possession of the Breast
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Date: 1692
"A Nobler, a Diviner Guest, / Has took possession of my Breast; / He has, and must engross it all, / And yet the room is still too small."
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Date: 1693
"But thou, my Dear, hast found the only Art, / At once to Conquer and Enjoy my Heart"
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Date: 1693
"New-minted Mischeifs rumble in his brain, / Each false Stamp'd Coin is melted down again, / 'Till refin'd Fancy fix'd on Woman."
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Date: 1702
Reason has a law that may be transgressed by vile wretches
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Date: 1702
"They're not Love's Subjects, but the Slaves of Lust, / Nor is their Punishment so great, as just."
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Date: 1702
'Tis Lust, (not Love) and Reason, that are Foes
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Date: 1702
"But there is one soft Minute, when the Mind / Is left unguarded," during which "the wise Lover understanding right, /Steals in like Day upon the Wings of Light."
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