MEMOIRS OP 



covered an illegitimate Sonnet in one of 

 the Gentleman's Magazines for Auguft or 

 September laft, with her fignature at full 

 length. It is addreffed to Mr. Dimond, of 

 whofe poetic exiftence flie had never heard, 

 and it praifes a poem of his which flie has 

 never feeri. One line of the forged fonnet 

 begins, " Bright Dimond," thus making a 

 miferable pun from an unfortunate name ; 

 and the writer's ear was defective enough to 

 induce his alliterating with the harlh th 



thus, 



Young joys awake in many a /^rilling t/trong ; 



which laft words form completely the 

 Gander's hifs. 



She finds alfo that thefe alternately-rhym- 

 ing ftanzas, which call themfelves fonnet^ 

 are interpolated, and given as her's, in the 

 6th Vol. of Public Characters, recently 

 publiihed; fee page 554 of that Vol. They 

 clofe anecdotes of her, that have been 

 chiefly collected from previous traces 

 in the monthly publications. All are 



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