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P. 85. was at this time a widow, and, in the expression of her humble sorrows, she seems to think that her child was taken from her on account of her faults, that it might be joined to its father in heaven on account of his virtues.

P. 86. It is pleasing to read such effusions on conjugal affection; "a subject (says Dr Percy) not often celebrated by the libertine muses."

P. 89. H T is Henry Thimelby, husband of the Authoress.

P. 90. E T is Edward Thimelby, the poet; and this is an answer to the poem, p. 45, entitled "Self-love mentayned to the faire Self-detiyer, my Sister Th," which was probably written by him. The examples here brought by Mrs Thimelby in illustration and in support of her opinion, are very forcible and