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Date: 1658
"Our hearts all vice, as Amphitane gold draws, / The Load-stone iron, as the Amber strawes."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1658
"As by instinct the Loadstone draws / The iron, as the Amber straws; / So let thy grace mine heart attract, / Dear Lord!"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)