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Excerpt from Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality
The heroine of the following tale was one of thofe ambitious females, who look upon rank and riches to be the principal ingredients in the nup tial compoiition; without which it is not worthy of the1r attention: and the perufal of her hifiory, may, perhaps, be of fome fervice to the female Icarus's ofthe age, who, by aiming to foar above all their friends and acquaintances, Iink themfelves infinitely below them partly from their weaknefs, but more from their prefumption.
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