Date: 1676

"May all the passions that are raised by neglected love--jealousy, indignation, spite, and thirst of revenge--eternally rage in her soul, as they do now in mine."

— Etherege, Sir George (1636-1691/2)

Date: 1676

"Sorrow and remorse gnaw [the] soul"

— Etherege, Sir George (1636-1691/2)

Date: 1676

"But she has left a pleasing image of herself that wanders in my soul. It must not settle there."

— Etherege, Sir George (1636-1691/2)

Date: 1676

The soul may be stolen from a "list'ning" virgin's heart

— Etherege, Sir George (1636-1691/2)

Date: 1676

"The knowledge of this makes my grief hang lighter on my soul, but I shall never more be happy."

— Etherege, Sir George (1636-1691/2)

Date: 1676

"The first time I saw you, you left me with the pangs of love upon me; and this day my soul has quite given up her liberty."

— Etherege, Sir George (1636-1691/2)

Date: 1676

"Can that blind faculty the Will be free, / When it depends upon the Understanding??

— Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)

Date: 1676

The understanding argues before the will can choose and "the last Dictate of the Judgment sways / The Will, as in a Balance, the last Weight / Put in the Scale, lifts up the other end"

— Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)

Date: 1676

"All objects are ready form'd and plac'd / To our hands; and these the Senses to the Mind convey, / And as those represent them, this must judge: / How can the Will be free, when the Understanding, / On which the Will depends, cannot be so"

— Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)

Date: 1676

"Lord shine and make my heart more soft, / And temper it, the seal to take."

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)