Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. ✨ To George, Lord Lyttelt…

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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. ✨ To George, Lord Lyttelton, 15 May 1744, in Joseph Spence 'Anecdotes' (ed. J. Osborn, 1966) no. 637
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