Date: 1684

The Passions may raise "Civil Wars" and discompose man "with intestine Jars"

— Oldham, John (1653-1683)

Date: 1684

A "charming Voice, and Art" may gain "the conquest of my Heart

— Oldham, John (1653-1683)

Date: 1684

A captive heart may wear a beloved's chain

— Oldham, John (1653-1683)

Date: 1684

One may be as great a Conqueror as Caesar, "Who couldst by milder ways all Hearts subdue, / The nobler Conquest of the two"

— Oldham, John (1653-1683)

Date: 1691

"Since then Effluviums from all Objects break, / And thrô the Air their unseen Journeys take, / To every Sense in various Measures come; / How is it that the crowding Troops find room? / Numberless Numbers to each Sense repair, / That various Motions, Forms, and Garbs do wear; / Enough to stifle ...

— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)

Date: 1691

"Whether these Parts, so subtle and refin'd, / That carry the Ideas to the Mind, / Barely by contact do their Acts maintain; / Or do materially invade the Brain, / A pressing doubt doth yet unsolv'd remain."

— Heyrick, Thomas (bap. 1649. d. 1694)