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Date: 1661
"What difference is there 'twixt a man and beast, / (None sure at all, or little to be guest) / If't wan't for Reason, and an immortal spark, / Which hides it self within his hollow Ark?"
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1667
"Pray'r is a Coach which by the Spirit driven, / Hurries our Souls into the Courts of Heaven."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1712, 1796
"Unsteady nature, varying like the wind, / Hurries to each extreme th'unstable mind; / At sea becalm'd, we wish some brisker gales / Would on us rise, and fill our limber sails: / We have our wish; and straight our skiff is toss'd / So high, we are in danger to be lost."
preview | full record— Ellwood, Thomas (1639-1713)
