Date: 1766
"Wisdom, which men with so much pain, / With so much weariness attain, / May in a little moment quit, / And abdicate the throne of Wit, / And leave, a vacant seat, the brain, / For Folly to usurp and reign."
preview | full record— Lloyd, Evan (1734-1776)
Date: 1794
"Not one short month for ten revolving years, / But pain within my frame its sceptre rears!"
preview | full record— Cave [later Winscom], Jane (c.1754-1813)