Date: 1693
"Yet that lovely Body is but the Shell of a more glorious Inhabitant, and is as far out-shone by that more radiant Gust, which lies within, as your choicest Jewels exceed the lustre of the Cask; which holds them: For her Illustrious mind has got as inexhaustible a store of rare perfections in it,...
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Date: 1693
"The Spaniard the truer Courier, but the Englishman the truer Lover; therefore, as commonly Love is soonest raised in one Breast, by seeing it first in the other, so the Englishman has the advantage of the Spaniard, and my heart catched that Passion, as it were by Contagion from his."
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Date: 1693
"Whore! (said I) that word I will engrave on thy traiterous Heart; at these words he leapt back and drew, I made at him with a great deal of Fury; but being appeased by some Blood I drew from him, I proffered him again the same conditions of Reconciliation; but his Rage made him deaf to Reason."
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Date: 1693
"for though your Highness, did make some Addresses to her, which as she told me, served to ruin her the more, yet they would never have proved any advantage to you; since we both thought, that you spoke out of Raillery more than any serious design; besides, in the highest tide of her Passion, she...
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Date: 1693
'When my Cousin ordered me to tell you her greatest privacies, those of her Love; she did but give the Reins to that passion, which has alwaies been too strong for her, since first the Graces your Highness is master of, reduced her to the condition of a Lover; and I question not, but she has had ...
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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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