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VGW(PA.736.015
5-12 Nov 1736:11 (15)
To the monitor. No.13. . . [2 lines in Latin]
Worshipful sir, I attack'd Miss Fainwould upon the subject I
mentioned to you some time since; but she denied it in a
particular manner: I know my sex pretty well, and therefore
I let it breath a while. Last Saturday going into church,
she unluckily took out her handkerchief, and drop'd the
following lines.
TO MISS FAINWOULD.
Since first I beheld thy bright eyes,
Which to love my fond heart did betray;
How swiftly the happy time flies!
'Tis no more than one week and one day:
Please to observe, Sir, that the King's birth-day was
Saturday was sen night.
. . . [1 verse follows] [signed] W.Z.
. . . [3 paragraphs of letter text follow describing the
courtship of Miss Fainwould, followed by text of a poem left
behind by a suitor]
1.
All hail, ye fields, where constant peace attends,
All hail, ye sacred solitary groves,
All hail, ye books, my true, my lasting friends,
Whose conversation pleases and improves.
. . . [9 more verses]
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