Date: 1697

"But when Ulysses, with fallacious arts, / Had made impression in the people's hearts,"

— Dryden, John (1631-1700)

Date: 1697

"Her charms unbind / The chains of love, or fix them on the mind."

— Dryden, John (1631-1700)

Date: 1697

"Besides, long causes working in her mind, / And secret seeds of envy, lay behind; / Deep graven in her heart the doom remain'd / Of partial Paris, and her form disdain'd; / The grace bestow'd on ravish'd Ganymed, / Electra's glories, and her injur'd bed."

— Dryden, John (1631-1700)

Date: 1698

"His Fancy too was most Luxurious, / And fertil of an Off-spring spurious"

— Anonymous

Date: 1698

"His Memory had Mansions many, / And some as fair and large as any; /But still the fairest and the best / Were took up by th'foulest Guest."

— Anonymous

Date: 1698

"For Slanders vile, and lying Stories / Lodg'd in its choice Repositories, / Whilst all their Doors were shut and barr'd / 'Gainst Worth and Merit very hard"

— Anonymous

Date: 1698

"His Reason which of Right should Reign / The lawfull Monarch of his Brain, / Was by his Will depos'd, whose Rule / Despotick was as Great Mogul, / Would not be bound in any Case / By any Reasonable Laws, / Nor other Magna Charta own, / Than what I please, That shall be done."

— Anonymous

Date: 1698

Momus found fault with man "Because there were no Windows in his Breast, / Thro' which his inclinations might be seen"

— Pope, Walter (c.1627-1714)

Date: w. 1694-1698, 1989

"Wn to my soul thou'st spoken peace / When from its bonds thou wilt my soul release / all my mourning then shall cease."

— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)

Date: 1699

"The Passions still predominant will rule: / Uncivil, rude, nor bred in Reason's School."

— Pomfret, John (1667-1702)