"Love is the Monarch Passion of the Mind, / Knows no Superior, by no Laws confin'd; / But triumphs still, impatient of Controul, / O'er all the proud Endowments of the Soul."
Strephon's Love for Delia Justified: In an Epistle to Celadon.
At least 47 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1702, 1707, 1710, 1716, 1720, 1724, 1726, 1727, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1742, 1749, 1751, 1753, 1755, 1756, 1759, 1766, 1767, 1773, 1777, 1779, 1780, 1782, 1785, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1797).<br>
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Text from <u>Poems upon Several Occasions. By the Reverend Mr. John Pomfret. The Sixth Edition, Corrected. With some Account of his Life and Writings. To Which are Added, His Remains</u>. (London: Printed for D. Brown, J. Walthoe, A. Bettesworth, and E. Taylor, and J. Hooke, 1724).
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First published as <u>Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions</u> (London: Printed for John Place at Furnivals-Inn in Holborn, 1702). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T115882">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111716934&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; -- 2nd edition in 1707; 3rd edition, 1710; 4th edition, 1716.<br><br>
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Found also in ECCO in <u>Poetical Works</u> (1779, 1797) and <u>The Works of the English Poets</u> (1790).