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7the Editor of the General Evening Post.3 SIR,THE following defcription ofapiftare, which I met with at a public inn in my journey to Norfolk, may, by puzzling, amufe and entertain your readers at this feafon of the year.It reprefents three young gentlemen coming from a caftle, adjoining to which is a wood ; on the fide of it fits a lady with an elderly gentleman, whofe head is laying on her lap. A gentleman paffing that way thus addrefies the lady:Madam,I pray thee, this one thing me fhow,What yon three be, if you them know ;'Coming from the caftle iirfceh degree,What’s their defcent and nativity ?• 1To whom the Lady replies,S I R,Th* one by the father’s fide is my brother, And fb is the.neXt in right of my mother The . third is my own fon lawfully begot, f And all fons to my hufcand on my lap. Without hurt of lineage in any degree,Shew me in reafon how this may be.An explanation from your readers is defired after the holidays.. C U R IO S U S*
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General Evening Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Dec 30, 1774
Page 4
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Bruce S.
USA 09 Jan 2022
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