Date: 1707

"Let your own Heart be Judge."

— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)

Date: January 29, 1708

"[I]f thou wilt prolong / Dire Compotation, forthwith Reason quits / Her Empire to Confusion, and Misrule, / And vain Debates"

— Philips, John (1676-1709)

Date: November 25, 1707; 1708

"Yes, Oswald, by the conscious Judge within, / So do I stand acquitted to my self, / That were my Ethelinda free from Danger, / On Peril of my Life, I would make known, / And to the World avow my Love and Faith."

— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

Date: November 25, 1707; 1708

"My faithful Seofrid / Has pierc'd into her very inmost Heart, / And found thee reigning there."

— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

Date: November 25, 1707; 1708

"Since Love is lost, / Come thou Revenge, succeed thou to ray Bosom, / And reign in all my Soul."

— Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

Date: 1708

"Vanity is the predominant Passion in the [female] Sex."

— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)

Date: 1708

"And he thought that Conversation did drive away evil Thoughts, and banish'd that Diversity of Opinions which offer'd themselves to his Mind, and kept him from the Suggestions of evil Thoughts."

— Ockley, Simon (bap. 1679, d. 1720)

Date: 1709, 1714

"And I am persuaded, that had Reason herself been to judg of her own Interest, she wou'd have thought she receiv'd more Advantage in the main from that easy and familiar way, than from the usual stiff Adherence to a particular Opinion."

— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)

Date: 1709, 1714

"But according to refin'd Sense, the only well-advis'd Persons, as to this World, are errant Knaves; and they alone are thought to serve themselves, who serve their Passions, and indulge their loosest Appetites and Desires."

— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)

Date: 1709 [1708]

"With Wishes rais'd, with Jealousies opprest / (Alternate Tyrants of the Human Breast) / By one great Tryal He resolves to prove / The Faith of Woman, and the Force of Love."

— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)