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VGW(RI.773.025
25 Mar 1773:12 (359)
London, December 5. . . 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
Shakespear, and opposite Handel's monument:
"This tablet is here placed by a voluntary subscription of
those who admired and esteemed her. She retired from the
stage, of which she had long been the ornament, in the month
of April, 1768, and died at Bath 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;
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