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"Restoration"
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Date: 1682
"'Tis not a Flash of Fancy which sometimes / Dasling our Minds, sets off the slightest Rimes; / Bright as a blaze, but in a moment done; / True Wit is everlasting, like the Sun; / Which though sometimes beneath a cloud retir'd, / Breaks out again, and is by all admir'd."
preview | full record— Sheffield, John, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721)
Date: 1692
"We Truth by a Refracted ray / View, like the Sun at Ebb of day: / Whom the gross, treacherous Atmosphere / Makes where it is not, to appear."
preview | full record— Norris, John (1657-1712)