Date: 1692
"The cause of this (said I) is that Cloud of Ignorance that blinds the Eye of our Mind, Reason, that it can't distinguish better."
preview | full record— Gildon, Charles (1665-1724)
Date: 1707, 1710
"Nor should such ruffling Storms molest / The Halcyon Smoothness of thy Breast / Doubt, Avarice, and the pale Multitude / Of greedy Harpyes, which intrude / Ev'n at our Meals, no Entrance find / On the strong Armour of your Mind, / Which You can straiten or unbend."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)