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[The] Revd. Dr. S---- answer to the di[s]tress'd maids petition, [blank] being a state of the case, setting forth the plaintiffs condition. Ditto, in imitation of Frances Harris's petition [electronic resource].

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Mrs. Harris's petition.
Swift, Jonathan.
Genre:
Single sheet verse.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 sheet )
Place of Publication:
[Dublin : s.n., 1720?]
Notes:
"Whereas you were never marry'd, tho' come to the years of five and twenty,".
S---- = Swift, but not in fact by Swift.
"An answer to 'The distress'd maid's petition', [172?], which was addressed to Swift. Both poems are in the style of his 'Petition of Frances Harris'" (Foxon).
Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library.
Cited in:
Foxon, R169
English Short Title Catalog, T198922.
OCLC:
509673603

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