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NHG-P.758.058
24 Nov 1758:22 (112)
Portsmouth. Last Sunday in the afternoon died at Exeter of
(that revageing disease of our youth) the throat-distemper,
in forty eight hours from her being first taken, aged about
18, Miss Elizabeth Gilman, an accomplish'd young lady,
daughter of Colonel Peter Gilman, Esq: greatly lamented.
Ye nymphs! that boast your charms, see here,
What once was innocent and fair:
Nor innocence, nor beauty's pow'r,
Could re[ ] from the fatal hour,
Nor prayers could stay the fleeting breath,
Nor save her from the hands of death,
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