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Memoir of Robert, Earl Nugent

With Letters, Poems, and Appendices: By Claud Nugent: With Twelve Reproductions from Family Portraits by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough and Others

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EPIGRAM XVII.

Vainly hath heaven denounc'd the woman's woes,
Thou know'st no tender care, no bitter throes,
Unfelt your offspring comes, unfelt it goes.