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THE

SECOND PART, OR SEQUEL,

OF THE

FOUNDLING-CHAPEL BRAWL,

A NON-HEROIC BALLAD;

WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY.

ALSO,

A POETICAL EPISTLE FROM THE DOCTOR

ΤΟ

HIS TWO FRIENDS.

TOGETHER WITH

AN ODE TO MUSIC

FOR THE

INSTALLATION OF THE DOCTOR AND HIS LADY

IN THEIR GALLERY PEW.

iterumque iterumque monebo."-VIRG. Æneid.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY C. ROWORTH, BELL YARD, FLEET STREET.

1805.

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TO THE

SECOND PART OF THE BALLAD.

AFTER I had published and circulated the First Part of this Ballad amongst such of my friends as were disposed to read and accept of it, (which circulation, by the bye, has extended far beyond the Metropolis, and the Ballad would ere this have been translated into German or Low Dutch, if the republican literary searchers in Holland had not arrested it in its progress to my friend Mr. Vander Sproegens, the medical professor at Leyden, on account of the religious principles and scriptural quotations which it contained), I received from the Author the following valuable continuation of his work, together with a letter from him, which I insert here by way of prefatory postrider, not post-liminious preface, as Mr. Plowden ingeni- · ously calls the thing placed at the end of his Irish history

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“SIR,

"THE very elegant and judicious manner in which you have conveyed the contents of my MS. to

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