Date: 1684 [1685]
"Would I could coin my very heart to gold!"
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1739
"Hourly within my Breast renew / This holy Flame, this heav'nly Fire; / And Day and Night be all my Care / To guard this sacred Treasure there."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1760
"Sudden my verses take the rude alarm, / New-coin'd, and from the mint of fancy warm"
preview | full record— Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754)