Date: 1632
"Looke as it is with a Gold smith that melteth the metall that he is to make a vessell of, if after the melting thereof, there follow a cooling, it had beene as good it had never beene melted, it is as hard, haply harder, as unfit, haply unfitter, then it was before to make vessell of; but after ...
preview | full record— Hooker, Richard (1554-1600)
Date: 1661
"GRACE though she could have with one single dart / The stubborn Will pierc'd th'row her Steely heart."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)