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Date: 1737
"From threshing Corn, he turns to thresh his Brains; / For which Her M------y allows him Grains."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1746, 1749
"But, since we never from the Breast of Fools / Can root their Passions, yet while Reason rules, / Let her hold forth her Scales with equal Hand, / Justly to punish, as the Crimes demand."
preview | full record— Francis, Philip (1708-1773)