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1718

Epitaph closing a prose letter (ff.55r-57r) supposedly from John Gay to Alexander Pope, on two lovers killed by lightning when harvesting. The first of Pope's 'Three epitaphs on John Hewet and Sarah Drew' (of Stanton Harcourt).