Date: 1667

"She that can Conquer, can reclaim a heart"

— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)

Date: 1667

One may scorn disguise and meaner Arts and "with a native Honour" conquer Hearts

— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)

Date: 1684

One may " Beget more Sighs then if with Arts / He should design to conquer Hearts"

— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)

Date: 1684

One may "conquer a Heart with a Look or a Smile"

— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)

Date: 1684

"[T]ake this Life, whose chiefest part / I gave you with the Conquest of my Heart"

— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)

Date: 1684

One may be born by Love's wing "from his Conquer'd broken Hearts, / To the next Fair and Yeilding She"

— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)

Date: 1686

"But now Within there's Civil War, / In Arms my rebel Passions are, / Their old Allegiance laid aside"

— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)

Date: 1689

The pen "Conquers Hearts with soft prevailing Force"

— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)

Date: 1689

"She's fair enough, only she wants the art / To set her Beauties off as they can doe, / And that's the cause she ne'er heard any woo, / Nor ever yet made conquest of a heart."

— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

Date: 1689

And yet there is, there is one prize / Lock'd in an adamantine Breast; / Storm that then, Love, if thou be'st wise, / A Conquest above all the rest, / Her Heart, who binds all Hearts in chains, / Castanna's Heart untouch'd remains."

— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)