"Gilbert shall live till loadstones cease to draw, Or British fleets the boundless ocean awe."

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John Dryden, in his epistle to Dr. Walter Charleton in the Works of John Dryden (1803) quoted by Paul Fleury Mottelay in William Gilbert of Colchester.