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bright breafted fongfters, torn from their 

 barren fprays by thy pitilefs fangs ! Alas ! 

 my heart died within me at the idea of fb 

 prepofterous a union ! 



Marry you, Mr. Snow, I am afraid I 

 cannot ; fince, though the laws of our 

 community might not oppofe our connec- 

 tion, yet thofe of principle, of delicacy, 

 of duty to my miftrefs, do very powerfully 

 oppofe it. 



As to prefiding at your concert, if you 

 extremely wifh it, I may perhaps grant 

 your requeft ; but then you muft allow me 

 to nhg a fong of my own compofition, 

 applicable to our prefent fituation, and fet 

 to mufic by my fifter Sophy at Mr. Brown's 

 the organift's, thus,. 



Air : affettuofo. 

 He, whom Puffy Po detains 

 A captive in her filken chains, 

 Muft curb the furious thirft of prey, 

 Nor rend the warbler from his fpray ! 



Nor 



