• I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

    Isaac Watts: I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
    "Hymns and Spiritual Songs". Book by Isaac Watts, as quoted in "Christian Hymn Writers"(ed Elsie Houghton) 1982, 1773.

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