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PG-P.754.098
15 Aug 1754:23 (1338)
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Buckram the Journeyman Taylor's Love-Letter to his
Sweetheart Sue, in which the humour of our last cold chiming
epilogue is exactly copied, and its peculiar beauties either
transcrib'd or imitated.
Let thankless slaves for favours humbly ask,
But to be grateful is a nobler task;
Accept my thanks then, Sue, for favours past,
And for the last--if it should prove the last;
Yet would I fain
Presume some hopes remain,
Some distant hopes that we may meet again;
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