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Date: 1723
"For, trust me, Love (that Inmate of the Mind) / Is very much mistaken by Mankind / For which too often is misunderstood / The sudden Rage and Madness of the Blood."
preview | full record— Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)
Date: 1755
"Of sorriest fancies your companions making, / Using those thoughts which should indeed have died / With them they think on."
preview | full record— Shakespeare [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]
