Date: 1712

"Thro' the Sight's Pores round little Globules steal, / And the charm'd Senses a strange Pleasure feel. / With secret Joy the Soul it self is seiz'd, / And with th'agreeable Idolum pleas'd. / Which wand'ring from the Eyes by Ways unknown, / O'er the soft Bowels and warm Heart is thrown, / ...

— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)

Date: 1712

A "subtle Spirit" may flow from brain and "With arbitrary Power it stamps it there / And binds th'obedient Mass the Form impos'd to wear."

— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)

Date: 1712

"So have I seen the Baker's Hand bestow / All sorts of Figures on the kneaded Dough."

— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)

Date: 1712

"For when the Blood shall with a sudden Start, / Run to the Caverns of the Womb and Heart, / A chilling Fear will all your Hopes defeat, / Whose Icy Flood destroys the forming Heat" and result in "an Abortive Birth."

— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)

Date: 1712

"Man is the Universe, in little shown, / The scatter'd Beauties here are joyn'd in one, / In him the several Motions are explain'd, / And the great World is in the less contain'd"

— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)

Date: 1712

"The God of Light sends down his streaming Rays / On the warm'd Earth, and chears with smiling Days. / And thus the central Heart the Source contains / Of vital Heat, and in its Cavern strains / The bubling Streams, that stretch the swelling Veins."

— Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Quillet, Claudius (fl.1640-1656)