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Date: April 18, 1721
"If thou dost love me, I shall fill thy Heart / With Scorpion's Stings."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: April 18, 1721
"Oh, what a Pain to think! when every Thought, / Perplexing Thought in Intricacies runs, / And Reason knits th'inextricable Toil / In which her self is taken. I am lost, / Poor Insect that I am, I am involv'd, / And bury'd in the Web my self have wrought."
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
Date: April 18, 1721
"Can I not rouze the Snake that's in his Bosom, / To Sting out human Nature, and effect it?"
preview | full record— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)
