Date: 1717
One may strive "On every Subject's Heart to seal his Love ... What Breast so hard? what Heart of human make, / But softning did the kind Impression take?"
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Date: 1723, 1740
"Those slighted Favours which cold Nymphs dispense, / Mere common Counters of the Sense, / Defective both in Mettle and in Measure, / A Lover's Fancy coins into a Treasure."
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Date: 1723, 1740
"My Tongue has slipp'd, and quite deceiv'd my Heart, / That melts like Wax before your hottest Anger"
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