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LINES WRITTEN IN EVELYN’S BOOK ON COINS - Alexander Pope, The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope [1903]

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The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Cambridge Edition, ed. Henry W. Boynton (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903).

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LINES WRITTEN IN EVELYN’S BOOK ON COINS

First printed in the Gentleman’s Magazine in 1735.

  • Tom Wood of Chiswick, deep divine,
  • To Painter Kent gave all this coin.
  • ’T is the first coin, I ’m bold to say,
  • That ever churchman gave to lay.