Printed for G. LISTER, No. 46, Old Bailey.

MDCC LXXXII.

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HARVARD
UNIVERSITY

LIDDARY
DEC 14 1961

John

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AN the fond mother from herself depart? Can fhe forget the darling of her heart, The little darling whom the bore and bred, Nurs'd on her knees, and at her bofom fed, To whom she seem'd her ev'ry thought to give, 5 And in whofe life alone fhe feem'd to live? Yes, from herself the mother may depart, She may forget the darling of her heart, The little darling whom the bore and bred, Nurs'd on her knees, and at her bofom fed, To whom she seem'd her ev'ry thought to give, And in whofe life alone fhe feem'd to live; But I cannot forget, whilst life remains, And pours her current thro' these fwelling veins, Whilft Mem'ry offers up at Reafon's fhrine; But I cannot forget that Gotham's mine.

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Can the stern mother, than the brutes more wild,

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From her difnatur'd breast tear her young child,
Flesh of her flesh, and of her bone the bone,
And dafh the fmiling babe against a stone;
Yes, the ftern mother, than the brutes more wild,
From her difnatur'd breast may tear her child,
Flesh of her flesh, and of her bone the bone,
And dafh the fmiling babe against a stone;
But I, (forbid it, Heav'n!) but I can ne'er
The love of Gotham from this bofom tear;
Can ne'er fo far true loyalty pervert
From its fair courfe, to do my people hurt.
With how much ease, with how much confidence,
As if, fuperior to each groffer fenfe
Reafon had only, in full pow'r array'd,
To manifeft her will, and be obey'd,

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