Date: 1683
"And first, the Presence-Chamber, where does rest, / In fitting state, the Monarch of the breast."
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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."
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Date: 1683
"Invention, Memory, and Wit, should stay; / And all their Treasures in this Turrit lay."
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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."
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Date: 1683
"Those sad reverberating groans that rise / Fro th' Caverns of my bosome, change their noise, / And, Eccho-like, dissolve into a Voice."
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Date: 1683
"The Soul (that bright coelestial Guest) / Altho eternal, seeks for rest."
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Date: 1683
"Then for to please the Ears (those Doors o'th' Mind) / Where could we rarer choice of treatments find?"
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Date: 1684
"My lady knows t' a tittle what there's in ye; / No passing your gilt shilling for a guinea."
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Date: June, 1684
"All this I think is in the power of Love, and yet it cannot work a change in me, my heart is link'd so firmly to your Virtues. Magick cannot break the chain."
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Date: 1685
Eternal troubles may haunt an anxious mind
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