A REQUEST Rebekah Carmichael (later Hay) Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T104666 Carmichael, Miss (Rebekah) (fl. 1790-1806). Poems. Edinburgh Peter Hill 1790 p. 61. 92p.

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A REQUEST A Fair one once upon a time , Address'd a nymph that dealt in rhyme , I pray on me make satire ; And plainly tell me , as a friend , My faults , that I may strive to mend ; I hate to hear you flatter . The nymph replied — Give me my book , And then assum'd the critic's look ; But stopt to pause a while : The greatest fault in you I see , Is asking such a thing of me ; Nor , Nancy , need you smile . For , O ! it was in vain to think , At such an error I could wink ; Your meaning will not hide Full well before I spake you knew , Of faults you had so very few , — 'Twas conscious female pride .