Date: 1696
"The Sences in Confederacy raise Rebellion against reason; there now is a Civil War over all this Compound Tabernacle. Pride and Desire disturb the Harmony of Government, endeavouring to undermine the tottering Fabrick, and to hurl all into Chaos and Confusion."
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Date: 1696
"Oh my Dear Saint, didst thou but know the secret Flames within my Breast do glow, you would not be so cruel, so hard hearted."
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Date: 1696
"A Devil Gnaws and Tears my Breast."
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Date: 1698
"His Fancy too was most Luxurious, / And fertil of an Off-spring spurious"
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Date: 1698
"His Memory had Mansions many, / And some as fair and large as any; /But still the fairest and the best / Were took up by th'foulest Guest."
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Date: 1698
"For Slanders vile, and lying Stories / Lodg'd in its choice Repositories, / Whilst all their Doors were shut and barr'd / 'Gainst Worth and Merit very hard"
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Date: 1698
"His Reason which of Right should Reign / The lawfull Monarch of his Brain, / Was by his Will depos'd, whose Rule / Despotick was as Great Mogul, / Would not be bound in any Case / By any Reasonable Laws, / Nor other Magna Charta own, / Than what I please, That shall be done."
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Date: 1703-4
"All therefore that [Jesus] cou'd take from his Mother, must be the Weaknesses, not the Faults of Humanity, not proceeding from her like a rasa tabula, with no Impressions at all, but indifferent to good and evil"
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Date: 1704
"Words drop like Hony from his Lips, his Mind / Is wav'ring and unconstant, as the Wind."
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Date: 1704
"His Thoughts were undisguis'd, and unconfin'd, / As naked as his Body was his Mind.
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