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PG-P.737.012
5-12 May 1737:21 (439)
London, Decem. 23. . . Yesterday morning a volunteer in the
wars of Venus, an inhabitant of St. Paul's Church-yard, did
penance in a white sheet, in St. Gregory's Parish Church,
and 'twas observed that he behaved with great courage,
having for two or three days before stood in the sheet in
the Sun Tavern kitchen, by way of rehearsal. The clerk of
the parish set part of the 130th psalm, in which is the
following stanza; by which one would think he had a very
good opinion of the rest of the parishioners.
O Lord our God, if you survey
Our sins, and them peruse,
Who shall escape? Or who dare say
I can myself excuse, &c. &c.
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