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Date: 1691
"I wear my Wit in my Belly, and my Guts in my Head, a very Natural might bob my Brains, my Pia-mater is not worth the ninth part of a Sparrow."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1691
'My very Brains (as Manichæus's Skin) are stuff'd with Chaff."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1691
"Were there any Metempsychosis, my Soul would want a Lodging, no single Beast could fit me; for I shou'd out of pure love to novelty change more Lodgings than ever Pythagoras's Soul did."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1691
"Twice every day a thousand Fancies and Fegaries crowd into my Noddle so thick as if my Brain kept open-house for all the Maggots in nature."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1691
"So that, Reader, you see my Soul is a proper Tenant for the House it lives in; both which were naturally ill Match'd, to shew, that a generous Spirit may be lodg'd under any shape."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1691
"But alas, I had not been sixty minutes Alphabetizing and sorting of Books before my old Rambling Maggot began to crawl and bite afresh; upon which I immediately grew as fickle and wavering as if I had drank Liquor distill'd from a Womans Brains; and nothing would satisfie me now till I saw the S...
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1691
"'Tis true, my Master did advise me (for which I'll pay and ever owe him as many Thanks as Arithmetick can count) to beg my Father's Consent before I rambled again; but my runnagate Mind being set on a galloping Frollick, he might with as much ease have found out the Quadrature of a Circle, or th...
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1691
"It is the greatest of Dominions to rule ones self and Passions."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1691
"He is the happy Man that can calmly wish and want, and so can I: I can sing, My mind to me a Kingdom is!"
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
Date: 1691
"No Servants on my beck attendant stand, / Yet are my Passions all at my command; / Reason within me shall sole Ruler be, / And every Sense shall wear her Livery."
preview | full record— Dunton, John (1659–1732)
