Date: 1709

"Purg'd from the Dross of a Terrestrial Mind, / The Blest are all Propitious to Mankind:"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: 1709

"Permit me then, if I may dare presume / To think your Breast retains for me a Room"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: 1709

"The finest Form! and the most finish'd Mind! / A Cabinet fill'd with the Richest Charms / That ever Husband lock'd within his Arms?"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: 1709

"And made her Face the Mirror to her Soul!"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: 1709

"When Moles appear upon the Skin," astrologers and magicians claim, "all the Passions may, within, / Be thro' the Sable Mirrours seen."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: 1709

Some will tell us "What all our Senseless Dreams import, / Drest in a Thousand various Shapes, / Centaures, Chimæras, Bulls and Apes, / When Fancy is dispos'd her Airyship to Sport."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: 1709

"They fed the Body, but did feast the Mind."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: 1709

"And tho' their Reason gave 'em dubious Light, / They trim'd the Lamp, and kept the Goal in sight"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: 1682, 1683, 1709

"Thus, led by what delusive Fame imparts, / We think thy [Modesty's] Throne's erected in their Hearts; / But w'are deceiv'd, as all our Fathers were, / For if thou Art at all, 'tis sure thou art not there."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: 1682, 1683, 1709

A woman's heart is a "black Mansion" in which nothing resides "But Spite, Contention, Luxury, and Pride"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)