Date: 1683

"But for such Guests [Invention, Memory, and Wit] I have no fitting Room; / Or if I had, I've no such Guests to come."

— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)

Date: 1683

"The Soul (that bright coelestial Guest) / Altho eternal, seeks for rest."

— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)

Date: 1684

"My grateful Thoughts so throng to get abroad, / They over-run each other in the crowd: / To you with hasty flight they take their way, / And hardly for the dress of words will stay."

— Oldham, John (1653-1683)

Date: 1684

"Soft-panting Heart: scarce knows what Fonder Guest / Might steal that way into her Virgin-Brest."

— Harington, John (1627-1700)

Date: 1684

"When holy Trances first inspire his Breast, / And the God enters there to be a Guest."

— Oldham, John (1653-1683)

Date: 1684

"Love only in their stead took up its Rest; / Nature made that thy constant Guest, / And seem'd to form no other Passion for thy Breast."

— Oldham, John (1653-1683)

Date: 1685

"For, as we see in Princes Pallaces, / How all the avenues, and passages / Are strictly guarded, to oppose the rude / Tumultuous entries of the Multitude: / Whilst civil persons, who have business, / Pass through the Guards, and dayly make address / To th'Princes ear: so all the Guards o'th' brai...

— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)

Date: 1685

Tho' a World of dull Bullion your essence do's hold, / Scarce an Atom of Soul was cast into the Mould, / Room enough, and to spare lavish Nature allows, / But provides not a Tenant to suit with the House

— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)

Date: 1685

"No, no, my friends, I utterly detest / The very thoughts of sin; nor, in the least / Will I allow my heart to entertain / Such guests as those, of which you do complain."

— Clark, William (fl. 1663-1685)

Date: 1686

"But now Within there's Civil War, / In Arms my rebel Passions are, / Their old Allegiance laid aside"

— Flatman, Thomas (1635-1688)