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MG-A(G.752.049
20 Aug 1752:13 (382)
From the Gentleman's Magazine, for March. . . [7 lines of a
letter to the magazine explaining the occasion of the poem
from a journeyman to his master whose conviction it is never
to advance money to his workmen, the explanation concluding]
But the muse sung not in vain, his wants were supplied; and
this is the genuine paper, in his own hand writing, as I had
it from his master. [signed] R.B.
LEWIS'S WANTS.
An ordinary bed---so the tackle's but clean,
The price, I believe, may be shillings eighteen. 18
A bedstead, I care not how clumsey 'tis made,
So the fleas and the bugs are but of it afraid. 12
. . . [16 more lines].
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