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SCGCJ.773.002
12 Jan 1773:13 (372)
London, November 7. The following is the inscription upon
the monument of Mrs. Pritchard, which was put up last
Wednesday, at the east end of Westminster Abbey next to
Shakespeare, and opposite to Handel's monument:
"This tablet here placed by a voluntary subscription of
those who admired and esteemed her. She retired from the
stage, of which she had long been an ornament, in the month
of April 1768, and died in the month of August following, in
the 57th year of her age.
"Her comic vein had ev'ry charm to please,
'Twas nature's dictates breath'd with nature's ease.
E'en when her powers sustain'd the tragic load
Full, clear, and just, th' harmonious accents flow'd;
. . . [8 more lines]
[signed] W. Whitehead, P.L.
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