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CC-H.769.015
8 May 1769:41 (229)
Tea! how I tremble at thy fatal stream?
As Lethe, dreadful to the love of fame
What devastations on thy banks are seen?
What shades of might names which once have been?
. . . [6 more lines] [signed] Young.
. . . [86 more lines of prose, necessity of patriotic ladies
to no longer consume tea, suggesting a "mugg of flip; or a
glass of cherry" instead.] That some of our young ones of
bold and enterprizing spirits, adopting the sentiments of
the Widow Lackit in the Tragedy of Oronoko. That modesty
means nothing, and is the virtue of a girl that knows not
what she would be at may imitate their examples, and so the
practice becomes general but of short duration, for
incompatables will never agree and coalesce, how easy to
foresee the alternative. O Tempora O Mores! [signed]
Anonymus.
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