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FROM VARIOUS AUTHORS.

"Would you your tender offspring rear.

With minds well form’d, devoid of fear.

Ne'er let the nurſe with idle tale,

Of Ghoſt their infant ears aſſail,

Of Bug-a-boo! or Chimney Sweep!

To terrify them into Sleep.

Thus, when matur'd by rip'ning age,

And brought upon the world’s great ſtage,

No midnight horrors vex the Soul,

Of howling dog, or hooting owl!

But on they move with manly tread,

Across the mansions of the dead;

Or pass the ruin’d tower, where.

Tradition says. Goblins appear."

STIRLING: PRINTED BY C. RANDALL, 1801.