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SCAGG.767.015
27 Mar-3 Apr 1767:21 (10/438)
London, January 10. To the printer. Your readers, no
doubt, will be pleased to see a poem, formerly written by a
person who now is, and has for some time been, the most
remarkable personage among us.
AN ELEGY ON LADY ABERGAVENNEY
By the late Right Honourable William Pitt, Esq.
Shall she whose charms inspired each sprightly lay,
Now want the last sad tribute we can pay?
Think not the Muse can so ungrateful prove,
She deems it no such crime to fall by love,
Dido still lives in Virgil's sacred song,
E'en Addison has wept his Rosamand;
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