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a lady and her maid were walking. When the song was finished, the former observed, "That young man seems very severe upon our sex, but perhaps he is singing more from oppression than pleasure; go give him that half-crown;" which the girl (sic – her maid) handed through the grating at a period when the captive poet was on the point of starving
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Elliott – This song is said to have been written by Mr James Robson, Stone Mason, at Thropton, near Rothbury, who was leader of the band in the Pretender's army, in 1715; he wrote a Satyr on women, and several other pieces while confined prisoner at Preston, in
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