Date: 1696
"But 'tis a pleasure more than life can give, / That with unconquer'd Passion to the last, / You struggle still, and fain wou'd hold me to you."
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Date: 1696
"O! that we cou'd incorporate, be one, / One Body, as we have been long one Mind: / That blended so, we might together mix, / And losing thus our Beings to the World, / Be only found to one anothers Joys."
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Date: 1699
"My Friendship even yet does balance Passion; but throw in the least grain more of an affront, and by Heaven you turn the Scale."
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Date: 1700
"View your own Charms, Madam, then judge my Passion."
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Date: 1700
"This Commission, Madam, was my Pasport to the Fair; adding a nobleness to my Passion, it stampt a value on my Love"
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Date: 1700
"I cannot view you, Madam: For when you speak, all the Faculties of my charm'd Soul crowd to my attentive Ears; desert my Eyes, which gaze insensibly"
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