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Date: 1686, 1712
"See how my melting Passions hast and run, / Like Virgin-wax before the scorching Sun!"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1686, 1712
One may be " to a narrow Dungeon confin'd, / A Cave that darkens and restrains [the] Mind"
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1686, 1712
"When first my Soul put on its fleshly Load, / It was Imprison'd in the dark Abode; / My Feet were Fetters, my Hands Manacles, / My Sinews Chains, and all Confinement else; / My Bones the Bars of my loath'd Prison grate; / My Tongue the Turn-key, and my Mouth the Gate."
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)