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True Humanity ufefully exerted.
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Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud.
Wham pleafure, power, and affluence fur round;
-Horn many drink the cup
€f baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread
Of miferj' Sore pierc'd by ’wintry winds.
How many fhrink into the fordid hut
Of cheerlefs poverty.
AS Bencvolus was returning home frosj
the Tavern late one night, he was
accofled by a female, who had fomething
in her air and manner fo different from
thofe out-cafts of humanity, who offer
themfclvejs to cafual proftitution in the
ftreets, that his curiofity was ihruck, and he
flopped to take more particular notice of
her. She appeared to be about fifteen.
Her figure was elegant, and her features re*
gular; but want had ficklied o’er their beau¬
ty ; and all the horrors of defpair gloomed
through the languid fmile fhe forced when
(he addrefied him.
The figh of diftrefs, which never flruck
his ear without affefting his heart, came
with double force from fuch an objeft. He
viewed her with filent companion for feme
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