Date: 1682
"Disdaining those Bonds that the Predicants wear, / My Soul is a Monarch as free as the Air."
preview | full record— Coppinger, Matthew (fl. 1682)
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)
Date: 1686, 1712
"O! that some usual Labour were injoyn'd, / And not the Tyrant Vice enslav'd my mind! / No weight of Chains cou'd grieve my captive Hands, / Like the loath'd Drudg'ry of its base Commands."
preview | full record— Arwaker, Edmund (c.1655-1730)
Date: 1687
"And Monarch's can depose, or can create: / With secret Chains their Subjects Conscience binds, / And lays inchanted Fetters on their Minds."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1689
And yet there is, there is one prize / Lock'd in an adamantine Breast; / Storm that then, Love, if thou be'st wise, / A Conquest above all the rest, / Her Heart, who binds all Hearts in chains, / Castanna's Heart untouch'd remains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1691
"Grace doth our Souls to God unite, / Like glorious Golden Chains."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
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."
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1691
"Here wisely-flowing Eloquence disdains / To be confin'd, but in Poetick Chains: / Sweet are the Bonds, that tye the Soul to Sense / And scope allow for All things, but Offence!"
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1693
"Let Thirst of Glory meaner Souls inspire, / And haunt their Dreams! these, nobler Things desire; / Nor envy such as Bodies only bind, / While they in Truth's soft Chains secure the Mind."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: June 28, 1693
"Beauties shine thro' the Work, adorn the whole, / Chain up the Sense, and captivate the Soul."
preview | full record— Tate, Nahum (c. 1652-1715)