Date: w. before 1717? (first published 1989)

"But he who servily can wish or grieve / For that which is not in his powr to give / Casts off the firmness wch shoud make him great / the strongest shield we can oppose to fate / letts inclinations grow & thus he weaves / Those very bonds which keep us passions slaves."

— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)

Date: 1762

Reason may her throne forsake "To stoop to Cupid's laws"

— Jemmat [née Yeo], Catherine (bap. 1714, d. 1766?)