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A collection of poems on various subjects

including the theatre, a didactic essay; in the course of which are pointed out, the rocks and shoals to which deluded adventurers are inevitably exposed. Ornamented with cuts and illustrated with notes, original letters and curious incidental anecdotes [by Samuel Whyte]

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EPIGRAM.

[Cælia, a friend in speculation]

Fructu, non foliis, arborem æstima.

Cælia, a friend in speculation,
Was hurt by some abuse;
She did not want an explanation—
She wanted an excuse!!!