“I write not for your farthing, but to try / How I your farthing writers, may outvie.”

—  Isaac Watts

An early couplet,quoted in Christian Hymn Writers,(ed Elsie Houghton) Evangelical Press of Wales, Bridgend,Wales 1982 ISBN 0 900898 66 6.
Attributed from postum publications, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)

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English hymnwriter, theologian and logician 1674–1748

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