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DEAN MAHOMET.
133
LETER XV.
DEAR SIR,
I SHALL now chahge the ſubject from grave to gay, and endeavour to entertain you with ſome account of the dancing girls of this country, At a very youthful time of life, they are regularly trained in all the arts of pleaſing, by a hackneyed matron, whom in the campaigns of Venus, whoſe paſt experience renders her perfectly adequate to the, taſk of inſtruction, for which ſhe receives from her pupils a ſhare of the pecuniary favours conferred on them by their gallants, and alſo
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