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Date: 1682, 1683, 1709

"At length from Love's vile Slave'ry I am free, / And have regain'd my Ancient Liberty: / I've shook the Chains off which my Bondage wrought, / Am free as Air, and unconfin'd as Thought."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1682, 1683, 1709

"I've Banish'd Her for ever from my Breast, / Banish'd the Proud Invader of my Rest, / Banish'd the Tyrant Author of my Woes, / That robb'd my Soul of all it's Sweet Repose."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1682, 1683, 1709

"The Whining Curse I've rooted from my Mind, / And with it, all Regard of Womankind."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1682, 1683, 1709

"His Love's the very Bird-lime of his Brain, / And pulls some Part away with every Strain."

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

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Date: 1710

"My design is to speak of no other kind of LOVE but that which Beauty begets in the Appetite, and of those various Storms and Emotions it raiseth both in the Soul and Body."

— Tipper, John (1663–1713)

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Date: 1710

"But LOVE slides in so secretly, that it is impossible to observe its Entry or its Progress; like a mask’d Enemy, it advanceth and seizeth all parts of the Soul, before it is discovered: When there is no means to be found to get him out, then he triumphs, and Wisdom and Reason must become his Sla...

— Tipper, John (1663–1713)

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Date: 1713, 1729

"Scarce had we pass'd six Bumpers round, / When lo! by wond'rous Pow'r, I found / My Reason had assum'd its Throne, / And all the Fumes of Love were gone."

— Carey, Henry (1687-1743)

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Date: 1714, 1735

" What cruel Dæmon haunts my tortur'd Mind? / Sure, if 'twere Love, I shou'd th'Invader find;"

— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)

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Date: 1714, 1735

"Alas! 'tis so--'tis fix'd the secret Dart; / I feel the Tyrant [Love] ravaging my Heart."

— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.