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60 ciative friends at Bath, and, curiously enough, hesitated at the last moment about accepting; so that Whalley's congratulatory poem on her engagement at Drury Lane, contributed to Lady Miller's "Roman Vase," was a little premature. At last, however, her departure was formally announced, and she took her farewell benefit. She acted in the Distressed Mother and The Devil to Pay, and then came forward and recited some lines of her own composition, of which we give the reader only a short sample, as the "Virgin Muse" does not soar very high:—

She then informs them they must part; that, if only she meets as much kindness elsewhere,

Nothing would drag her from Bath, she says, but one thing; here she went to the wing and led forward her children:—

The moles now numbered three, her second daughter