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DITTO.

1 I have five sons, I tell it you in grief,
2 And each of them a cut-throat or a thief.

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Alcock [née Cumberland], Mary, 1741?–1798. Poems, &c. &c. by the Late Mrs. Mary Alcock [poems only]. London: Printed for C. Dilly, Poultry, 1799, p. 124. vii,[25],183,[1]p. (ESTC T86344) (Page images digitized by University of Michigan Library.)

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