Date: 1658
"The Alc'ran sayes, (which who will may beleeve) / The Moon descended into Mahomet's sleeve: / 'Tis strange! yet God doth his loves lamp impart / T'a more coarcted room, what's that? the heart."
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Date: 1658
"O may the lustre of those rayes divine / Be alwaies sparkling in this heart of mine!"
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Date: 1658
"When God had framed man with wondrous art, / He after made his soul the nobler part; / He did his dross with sacred fire refine / And breath'd in him a soul, a soul divine."
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Date: 1658
"Wit, Understanding, Memory, and Will, / The pallace of the soul inhabit still."
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Date: 1658
In "Man's head ... madam Reason is enthron'd, her grace / Reignes like an Empress in the highest place."
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Date: 1658
"My lady Will, resideth in the brain; / The Judgment there, there doth Minerva raigne"
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Date: 1658
"May not our eyes bee very well defin'd / The Looking-glass of Nature, and the minde."
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Date: 1659
"The same man fights with himself: Reason warres with the affection; and passion with passion"
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Date: 1659
"The minde is sometimes a Bull, sometimes a Serpent, and sometimes a flame of fire"
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Date: 1659
"The minde is sometimes a Bull, sometimes a Serpent, and sometimes a flame of fire; and then the musick of the soule is quite out of tune; the Bells ring backward as in some general conflagration."
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