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Date: 1677

"His Soul appears like Paper white, / That yet had scarce bore word aright."

— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)

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Date: November, 1682

"Heav'n's early care prescrib'd for every age; / First, in the soul, and after, in the page."

— Dryden, John (1631-1700)

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Date: 1683

"Many a Lye, many a Fable, / Is engrav'd on the Souls Razed Table."

— Dixon, Robert (1614/15-1688).

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Date: 1693

"Needless was written law, where none opprest; / The law of man was written in his breast."

— Dryden, John (1631-1700)

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Date: 1697

"Besides, long causes working in her mind, / And secret seeds of envy, lay behind; / Deep graven in her heart the doom remain'd / Of partial Paris, and her form disdain'd; / The grace bestow'd on ravish'd Ganymed, / Electra's glories, and her injur'd bed."

— Dryden, John (1631-1700)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.