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address spoken by miss fontenelle on her be night, december 4th, 1793, at the theatre, dumfries. still anxious to secure your partial favour, and not less anxious, sure, this night, than ever, a prologue, epilogue, or some such matter, 'twould vamp my bill, said i, if nothier; so sought a poet, roosted he skies, told him i came to feast my curious eyes; said, nothing like his works was ever printed; and last, my prologue-business slily hinted. “ma'am, let me tell you,” h my man of rhymes, “i know your bent—these are no laughing times: you—but, miss, i own i have my fears— dissolve in pause, aimental tears; with laden sighs, and solemn-rounded sentence, rouse from his sluggish slumbers, fell repentance; paint vengeance as he takes his horrid stand, waving on high the desolating brand, calling the storms to bear him uilty land?” i could no more—askahe creature eyeing, “d'ye think,” said i, “this face was made f? i'll laugh, that's poz-nay more, the world shall know it
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