Date: 1684

To do, perform; all wandring thoughts again; / No vulgar Act, Sense, Fancy where did Reign / Usurping Lords, to make them know Subjection; / Mount Reason on the Throne, wise circumspection.

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

Date: 1684

"You wish'd those Thoughts in bloody Ink were shrouded"

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

Date: 1684

"Sad Frailty howere both Body, Mind display, / That brighter Coin bad Mixture does Allay."

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

Date: 1684

" Where Fancy, Passion much o'er-rule, and grown / Usurper like, Mount Princely Reason's Throne"

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

Date: 1684

"This Youth to dinner came, Intruding fashion, / With certain Friend; Danc'd with that Golden Lass; / Found Courting pause sometimes, no Heart of brass, / Softned, orecame: yet once before beheld; / Woo'd then by Looks, now th' Hand and Tongue reveal'd / ...

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

Date: 1684

"Proud sturdy Soul, most Iron-temper'd Brest, / As Subtil too; bad Stratagems possest"

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

Date: 1684

"He liv'd withdrawn; Reserved, pensive Brest: / Yielding too far (unwares) to rising Passion, / Strong Fancy's pow'r, which in great Grief vexation / Do Lord it oft like Tyrants o're the Mind;"

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

Date: 1684

"Bad Fogs produce in clearer Reason's sky"

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

Date: 1684

"Soft-panting Heart: scarce knows what Fonder Guest / Might steal that way into her Virgin-Brest."

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

Date: 1684

"Much like th' ore-fond, tormented Lover, / Whose Travels Scorns alone discover / To th' chased Stag? Their Dwellings bear / Same form, sad-fortun'd Both appear, / Wilderness round his Fancy shows, / Which wild, disorder'd Thoughts compose; / Hunted by Dogs each strong for Scent / (Grief, Rage, D...

— Harington, John (1627-1700)