Date: 1684

One may " Beget more Sighs then if with Arts / He should design to conquer Hearts"

— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)

Date: 1684

One may "conquer a Heart with a Look or a Smile"

— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)

Date: 1684

"[T]ake this Life, whose chiefest part / I gave you with the Conquest of my Heart"

— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)

Date: 1684

One may be born by Love's wing "from his Conquer'd broken Hearts, / To the next Fair and Yeilding She"

— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)

Date: 1684

"Since Harmony, like Fire to VVax, does fit / The softned Heart Impressions to admit."

— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)

Date: 1684

"In proper Cells her large capacious Brain / The images of all things does contain, / As bright almost as were th'Ideas laid, / In the last model e'er the World was made."

— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)

Date: 1689

"She's fair enough, only she wants the art / To set her Beauties off as they can doe, / And that's the cause she ne'er heard any woo, / Nor ever yet made conquest of a heart."

— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

Date: 1689

And yet there is, there is one prize / Lock'd in an adamantine Breast; / Storm that then, Love, if thou be'st wise, / A Conquest above all the rest, / Her Heart, who binds all Hearts in chains, / Castanna's Heart untouch'd remains."

— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

Date: 1689

A noble Presence can give "a better stamp to all their Minds" than would an eloquent tongue

— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

Date: 1689

" But on his Heart the stamp of Death he wore"

— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)