Date: 1647
"False Coin with which th'Impostor cheats us still; / The Stamp and Colour good, but Metal ill!"
preview | full record— Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)
Date: 1679
"From Heav'n was with a Silver Cord let down, / And into the Souls mass divinely thrown, / To be its Salt, miraculously contriv'd"
preview | full record— Woodford, Samuel (1636-1700)
Date: 1682
"What subtle dart / Had you at first to penetrate my Heart, / Obdure as Steel."
preview | full record— Coppinger, Matthew (fl. 1682)
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)