Date: 1680
"O, 'tis confess'd; / And howsoe're my Tongue has plaid the Braggart, / She Reigns more fully in my Soul than ever: / She Garrisons my Breast, and Mans against me / Even my own Rebel thoughts, with thousand Graces, / Ten thousand Charms, and new discover'd Beauties."
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Date: 1681
"Thus when Adonis got the stone, / To Love the Boy still made his moan; / Venus the Queen of Fancy came, / And as he slept she cool'd his flame."
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Date: 1684
"No Discord in thy Soul did rest, / Save what its Harmony increast."
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Date: 1684
Reason may fix "its peaceful Throne" in the mind and reign alone
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Date: 1684
"The Will its easie Neck to Bondage gave, / And to the ruling Faculty became a Slave."
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Date: 1684
The Passions may raise "Civil Wars" and discompose man "with intestine Jars"
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Date: 1684
A "charming Voice, and Art" may gain "the conquest of my Heart
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Date: 1684
A captive heart may wear a beloved's chain
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Date: 1684
One may be as great a Conqueror as Caesar, "Who couldst by milder ways all Hearts subdue, / The nobler Conquest of the two"
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Date: 1684
"All in thy faithful Glass were so express'd, / As if they were Reflections of thy Breast, / As if they had been stamp'd on thy own mind"
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