Date: 1907
"'I see a Horse, I'm sure thats true.' / I say the Devil a Horse see You; / You see a Horse's Image, lain / In Miniature upon your brain; / But what you take for fourteen hand, / Is less than half a grain of sand."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Date: w. 1702-1713, published 1989
"At modern Rome an easy Nymph was bred / In tender tales & soft Romances read / These on the brain a wild impression brought / & made her sure she saw what ere she thought."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)