Date: 1713

"But just arriv'd--Absence, Mrs. Busie, has not been able to deface the Impressions of Love,--and still the Lady Myrtilla reigns in my Bosom, haunts my waking Thoughts, and is ever present in my Dreams."

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1713

"What think you, old Heart of Oak, shall Experience supply the want of Youth?"

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1713

"Since we have made this Breach in her Heart, my Lad, there is now no fear of gaining the Citadel."

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1713

"Fair Lady, show your self a generous Conqueror; and since I am taken Captive by your Charms, and bound in the Golden Chains of your Beauty, throw me not into the Dungeon of Disdain, but rather confine me in the pleasing Mansions of your Bosom; where my Heart will glory in its Captivity, and desp...

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1713

"My Memory is pretty well stocked with Terms of Art, and I can talk unintelligibly."

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1713

"Are Ladies Hearts more hard than Stone, / Are Wolves and Bears less fierce?"

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1713

"Have not I a bonny Complexion, my Heart of Oak? dost thou not trace the Remains of Beauty through every Feature?"

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1713

"If Reason governs Man's superior Mind, / A ready Cunning prompts the Female Kind."

— Gay, John (1685-1732)

Date: 1714

"Thus when Revenge does Reason's Scepter rule, / It turns the Wisest Statesman to a Fool"

— Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

Date: 1714

In the afterlife, "each Soul must drink long Draughts / Of those forgetful Streams."

— Evans, Abel (1679-1737)