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Date: 1657
"Alas! alas! my flesh is too too weak, / And may be conquer'd; thou maist eas'ly break / This brittle Casket: but my inward minde / A jewel is which thou shalt never finde."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)