Date: 1682

"O play not with my Heart, as Children do / With some poor Bird, which while they love, they shew. / One over-weening grasp of life bereaves, / And in a moment all the joy deceives."

— Coppinger, Matthew (fl. 1682)

Date: 1683

The Great Prince, "Who conquer'd Armies, now thou Conquers hearts:"

— Paterson, Ninian (fl.1678-1696)

Date: 1683

"This thought such deep impressions makes"

— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)

Date: 1683

"And first, the Presence-Chamber, where does rest, / In fitting state, the Monarch of the breast."

— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)

Date: 1683

"That once Experience would but cross the Jest, / And prove the highest Chamber furnisht best. / For Knowledge (Nature's guide) should quarter there, / And Judgment, her most trusty Councellour."

— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)

Date: 1683

"Invention, Memory, and Wit, should stay; / And all their Treasures in this Turrit lay."

— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)

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

"Those sad reverberating groans that rise / Fro th' Caverns of my bosome, change their noise, / And, Eccho-like, dissolve into a Voice."

— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)

Date: 1683

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

— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)

Date: 1683

"Then for to please the Ears (those Doors o'th' Mind) / Where could we rarer choice of treatments find?"

— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)