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Date: Licens'd Decemb. 22. 1691
"Her Eyes diffus'd Rays comfortable as warmth, and piercing as the light; they would have worked a passage through the straightest Pores, and with a delicious heat, have play'd about the most obdurate frozen Heart, untill 'twere melted down to Love."
preview | full record— Congreve, William (1670-1729)