"A war of passions in their breasts they feel / As the muse fires, who have not hearts of Steel."
The Tragick Muse Full Twice a Thousand Years [from a Collection of Letters, and State Papers]
Poem appears in a letter from In a letter from R. Henley. Attribution to Cooke is uncertain.<br>
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Text from <u>A Collection of Letters, and State Papers, from the Original Manuscripts of Several Princes and Great Personages in the Two Last Centuries; With Some Curious and Scarce Tracts, and Pieces of Antiquity, Modern Letters, &C. on Several Important Subjects, in Two Volumes. to Which Are Added Memoirs of the Unfortunate Prince Anthony the First of Portugal, and the Oeconomy of High-Life. Compiled by L. Howard</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed for the Author, 1756), ii, p. 693. &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T114616">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;