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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican (High Church)"
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Literary Period:
"Seventeenth Century"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Mineral"
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Date: 1662
The "active soul doth not consume with rust"
preview | full record— Watkyns, Rowland (c. 1614-1664)
Date: 1693
"Base vulgar drossie minds, with more alloy / Then is that captive wealth they might enjoy; / Which Thieves may steal, which Rust or Fire destroy;"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)