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EPISTLE V.

THE PRODUCTION OF

A YOUNG LADY,

ADDRESSED TO THE

AUTHOR OF THE POEMS

ALLUDED TO

IN THE PRECEEDING EPISTLE.

She had lost her Silver Thimble, and her complaint
being accidentally overheard by him, her Friend,
he immediately sent her four others to take her
choice of.

AS oft mine eye with careless glance
Has gallop 'd thro' some old romance,

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