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 i8o Anne BradJireeVs Works.

My Subjeds bare, my Brain is bad, Or better Lines you JJiould have had : The firji fell in fo nafi'ally,

I knew not how to pa/s it by,'"

The lajl, though bad I could not mend,

Accept therefore of what is pen''d,

And all the faults that you Jliall fpy Shall at your feet for pardo7i cry.*

'■' I could not tell how to paffe 't bj.
 * This is signed in the first edition.

Your dutifull Daughter.

A. B.

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