Date: 1684
"[T]ake this Life, whose chiefest part / I gave you with the Conquest of my Heart"
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Date: 1684
One may be born by Love's wing "from his Conquer'd broken Hearts, / To the next Fair and Yeilding She"
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Date: 1684
"Since Harmony, like Fire to VVax, does fit / The softned Heart Impressions to admit."
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Date: 1684
"In proper Cells her large capacious Brain / The images of all things does contain, / As bright almost as were th'Ideas laid, / In the last model e'er the World was made."
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Date: 1686
"But the false Image she will ne're erace, / Though far unworthy still to hold its place: / So hard it is, even Wiser grown, to take / Th' Impression out, which Fancy once did make."
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Date: 1686
"Or coldness, worse than Steel, the Loyal heart doth wound"
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Date: 1686
A " Heav'n-born Mind" may have "no Dross to purge from [its] Rich Ore:"
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Date: 1686
"Nor does its [sickness's] Malice in these bounds restrain, / But shakes the Throne of Sacred Wit, the Brain, / And with a ne're enough detested Force / Reason disturbs, and turns out of its Course."
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Date: 1688
"My Heart your Empire now disdains, / And Frown, or Smile, all's one to me."
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Date: 1688
By chance some heart may "thy empire own"
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