"Poor Mind, who heard all with extreme moderation, / Thought it now time to speak, and make her allegation: / ''Tis I that, methinks, have most cause to complain, / Who am cramped and confined like a slave in a chain.'"
A Dialogue
Written in 1740, circulated in manuscript (1741). 6 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1762, 1766, 1776, 1777, 1789).<br>
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See <u>Poems on Several Occasions.</u> (London: Printed for John Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paulâ€™s Church-Yard, 1762). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T42628">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Roger Lonsdale's <u>Eighteenth Century Women Poets</u> (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989).