Date: 1689
A noble Presence can give "a better stamp to all their Minds" than would an eloquent tongue
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Date: 1689
" But on his Heart the stamp of Death he wore"
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Date: 1689
"For such a Gift, as t'have that Gemam possest, / Not of your Cabinet, but of your Breast."
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Date: 1689
"In vain they strive your glorious Lamp to hide / In that dark Lanthorn to all noble minds, / Which, through the smallest cranny is descry'd, / Whose force united no resistance finds"
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Date: 1689
The passion ambition "'Tis the minds Wolf, a strange Disease, / That ev'n Saciety can't appease"
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Date: 1689
"For Vertue in a Woman's Breast / Seldom by Title is possest, / And is no Tenant, but a wand'ring Guest."
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Date: 1692
"But when dilated organs let in day / To the young soul, and gave it room to play, / At his first aptness, the maternal love / Those rudiments of reason did improve."
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Date: 1692
"The tender age was pliant to command; / Like wax it yielded to the forming hand: / True to the artificer, the laboured mind / With ease was pious, generous, just, and kind."
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