Date: 1677
"Come, thou heart-reviving Gleam, / Thou, of Comforters the best, / Thou, the Souls delightful Guest, / A refreshing sweet relief."
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)
Date: 1679
"How can'st thou, cruel Soul, thus let me stand, / Barr'd out of Doors, whilst others do command / The choicest Room within thy yielding Breast, / Lodgings too good for such destructive Guests."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: c. 1680
"While man unmarr'd abode, his Spirits all / In Vivid hue were active in their hall."
preview | full record— Taylor, Edward (1642-1729)
Date: c. 1680
"The Vitall Spirits apprehend thereby / Exposde to danger great suburbs ly, / The which they do desert, and speedily / The Fort of Life the Heart, they Fortify, / The Heart beats up still by her Pulse to Call / Out of the outworks her train Souldiers all / Which quickly come hence."
preview | full record— Taylor, Edward (1642-1729)
Date: 1680
"Our charmed Eyes, O had you never cloy'd, / Our Palate tickled, or we still enjoy'd / That pleasant prospect, this Soul-raping Guest, / That Royal fare, we had been always Blest."
preview | full record— Livingstone, Michael (fl. 1680)
Date: 1681
"For thou alone to people me, / Art grown a num'rous Colony; / And a Collection choicer far / Then or White-hall's, or Mantua's were."
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1682
"A Crowd of Vertues fill your Princely Breast."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1683
"That once Experience would but cross the Jest, / And prove the highest Chamber furnisht best. / For Knowledge (Nature's guide) should quarter there, / And Judgment, her most trusty Councellour."
preview | full record— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)
Date: 1683
"But for such Guests [Invention, Memory, and Wit] I have no fitting Room; / Or if I had, I've no such Guests to come."
preview | full record— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)
Date: 1683
"The Soul (that bright coelestial Guest) / Altho eternal, seeks for rest."
preview | full record— Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680)