Date: 1614, 1638
"The soules of Women and Lovers, are wrapt in the port-manque of their senses."
preview | full record— Overbury, Sir Thomas (bap. 1581, d. 1613)
Date: 1678
"A Weak mind complains before it is overtaken with evil, and as Birds are affrighted with the noise of the Sling, so the infirm soul anticipates its troubles by its own fearful apprehensions, and falls under them before they are yet arrived."
preview | full record— Wanley, Nathaniel (1634-1680)