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[[foreign: French]] N'ose vous dire sans façons Qu'un doux regard divine Auguste Est le prix [[underline]] courant d'une chanson. [[/underline]] bis J'ai écrit ci dessus de grandes bétises; j'en ai presque honte, mais dans quelque années je lirai cela à mes Enfans pour leur laisser voir ce que j'ai été. car quand le [[underline]] je suis [[/underline]] êst passé, les sottes femmes se vantent du [[underline]] j'ai eté [[/underline]] [[/foreign]] Epitaph on [[underline]] Johnson [[/underline]] by Joane Jennings Here lies poor Johnston -- Reader have a care Tread lightly least you rouze a sleeping Bear Religeous, moral, generous, humane He was, -- but self sufficient rude and vain; Ill bred and overbearing in dispute A scholar & a christian, yet a Brute. Would you know all his wisdom & his folly His actions, sayings, mirth & melancholy, Boswell and Thrale, retailers of his wit Will tell [[underline]] you how he wrote, & talk'd, [[/underline]] & cough'd, [[underline]] & spit. [[/underline]]
