Date: 1677
"So of the Soul the saying may be true, / That e're it bids its Cabinet adieu, / Four inches is the most that it doth keep / Betwixt its life and an eternal sleep"
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)
Date: 1677
"My Habit is the Mirror of my Mind, little do you know the value of this outside"?
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1677
"He hath a Lamp, but that Lamp hath no Oyl. / He hath a Soul, but what doth that embrace?"
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)
Date: 1677
"Come, thou heart-reviving Gleam, / Thou, of Comforters the best, / Thou, the Souls delightful Guest, / A refreshing sweet relief."
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)
Date: 1677
"I wou'd ha' rent / With my just hands that Rock, that Marble heart; / I wou'd have div'd through Seas of bloud to find it, / To tear the cruel Quarry from its Center."
preview | full record— Lee, Nathaniel (1653-1692)
Date: 1677
"And mine / The truest Heart that e're obey'd the Dictates / Of Loves Imperial Power, from that hour / That first obtain'd my Eye the happy Object / Of your Perfections, my poor fetter'd Heart, / Proud of the Chains of such a Conquering Beauty, / Resolv'd to Grace the long wish'd Victory / With a...
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1677
"Or else unto those Birds (aspiring) rare, / The Soul contemplative I may compare, / Of whom King David worthily attests, / That by the Holy Altar build their Nests: / So Meditation's said in holy Story, / To build her Nest about the Throne of Glory."
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)
Date: 1670, rev. 1678
"He's got a piece of cheese and bread in's head."
preview | full record— Ray [formerly Wray], John (1627-1705)
Date: 1678
"A Weak mind complains before it is overtaken with evil, and as Birds are affrighted with the noise of the Sling, so the infirm soul anticipates its troubles by its own fearful apprehensions, and falls under them before they are yet arrived."
preview | full record— Wanley, Nathaniel (1634-1680)
Date: 1678
"No more; I'm thine, and here I seal my heart to thee for ever."
preview | full record— Otway, Thomas (1652-1685)