Date: 1609
"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up remembrance of things past, / I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, / And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste"
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1635
"Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, / But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1658
In "Man's head ... madam Reason is enthron'd, her grace / Reignes like an Empress in the highest place."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1658
"My lady Will, resideth in the brain; / The Judgment there, there doth Minerva raigne"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)