BROCKLEY-HILL.

No heart can think, nor tongue can tell,

What lies between Brockley-hill and Penny-well.

Brockley-hill lies near Elstree, in Hertfordshire, and Penny-well is the

name of a parcel of closes in the neighbourhood. See Stukeley's Itin.

Cur. 1776, i. 118. This distich alludes to the quantity of old coins

found near those places.

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