"I [the mind] did but step out, on some weighty affairs, / To visit last night, my good friends in the stars, / When, before I was got half as high as the moon, / You despatched Pain and Languor to hurry me down; / Vi & Armis they seized me, in midst of my flight, / And shut me in caverns as dark as the night."
A Dialogue
Written in 1740, circulated in manuscript (1741). 6 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1762, 1766, 1776, 1777, 1789).<br>
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See <u>Poems on Several Occasions.</u> (London: Printed for John Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paulâ€™s Church-Yard, 1762). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T42628">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Roger Lonsdale's <u>Eighteenth Century Women Poets</u> (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989).