Date: 1600
"But yet you draw not iron; for my heart / Is true as steel."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: 1693
"These two Load-Stones do so strongly Attract my Heart. That (like Mahomets Iron-Coffin) I am poys'd & supported in the Air between Both."
preview | full record— Higden, Henry (bap. 1645)
Date: 1694
"Pray mind me, Sir, to shew my Shape and Aire; that as the Loadstone does the Obedient Iron--should draw by force to me all Hearts but yours--."
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)