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Call me not lazy back beggar, and bold enough; Fain would I learn both to knit and to sew ; I’ve two little brothers at home,—when they're old enough. They will work hard for the gifts you bestow. Pity kind gentlemen, &c.

O think, while you revel so careless and free. Secure from all harm, both well clothedand fed Should fortune so change it, how hard it would be, To beg at a door for a morsel of bread. Pity, kind gentlemen, &c.

ELIZA

From thee, Eliza, I must go. And from my native shore; The cruel fates betweeu us throw A boundless ocean‘s roar : But boundless oceans, roaring wide Between my love and me, They never, never can divide My heart and soul from thee.