Date: 1736

"Each keeps the other's Image in his Breast, / As Wax preserves the Form a Seal imprest."

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1736

"Weighty cares may "the pensive Mind invade"

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1736

"PAULTONS affords me next a kind Retreat, / Where crowding Joys my grateful Heart dilate"

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1736

"Infuse a little Wit into the Scull, / Which never fails to make a mighty Fool; / Two Drams of Faith; a Tun of Doubting next; / Let all be with the Dregs of Reason mixt: / When, in his Mind, these jarring Seeds are sown, / He'll censure all Things, but approve of none."

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1736

"Great Minds, by native Sympathy, combine, / As golden Particles the closest join."

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1736

"In her own Breast she seeks a calm Repose, / And shuns the crowded Rooms of Belles and Beaux"

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1736

"But, as a Child, in Thought, chews o'er / The Sweetmeats, which he eat before; / So in his Mind Alexis keeps / The dear Impression of her Lips:"

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1740

"In vain we forge coercive Chains, to bind / The strongest, noblest Passion of the Mind."

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1740

"In vain with formal Laws we fence it round; Love, swift as Thought, impatient, leaps the Bound,"

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1741

"Early instruct your tender Youth / In Heav'n's unerring Law of Truth, / Engrave it on their Mind."

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)