Date: 1689
"For Vertue in a Woman's Breast / Seldom by Title is possest, / And is no Tenant, but a wand'ring Guest."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1689, 1716
Honor is "The richest Treasure of a generous Breast, / 'That gives the Stamp and Standard to the rest."
preview | full record— Montagu, Charles, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)
Date: 1689, 1716
"'What Confidence can you in them repose, / 'Who e're they serve you, all their Value lose? / 'Who once enslave their Conscience to their Lust, / 'Have lost their Reins, and can no more be Just."
preview | full record— Montagu, Charles, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)
Date: 1691
"Be deaf to Flattery; it deludes the Mind, / And oft, when all Arts fail, doth entrance find. / But then's most Danger, we should to 't resign. / When't meets with that Arch-Flatterer within."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
The Lord may "bear our Name upon [his] Breast, / Engrave it on [his] Heart"
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1691
"So the bold Artist, that of You would speak / Should Patterns from Celestial Natures take; / And stamp his Soul in an Angelick Mold; Er'e he Your Vertues should attempt to' unfold."
preview | full record— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)
Date: 1691
"O set thine Image on my Heart! / O seal it on my Arm!"
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1691
"Dancing, Singing, Swearing, Impudence, / Can make Impressions upon easie sense"
preview | full record— Ames, Richard (bap. 1664?, d. 1692)
Date: 1691
"Afflictions like as fire doth / The Gold rarely refine, / Purge all our Souls, and we thereby / More gloriously may shine."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1691
"Grace doth our Souls to God unite, / Like glorious Golden Chains."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)