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Unknown. The artless muse: being six poetical essays on various subjects. By a person in obscure life. Viz. I. A poem to the memory of John Milton, the British Homer: Occasioned by a Letter, some Time since published, in behalf of his daughter, Mrs. Clark, who then subsisted on the Labour of her poor Son, a Weaver in Spittle-Field: Lamenting, the Ingratitude of his Country to the Manes of that incomparable Bard; and celebrating the Royal Bounty of her Present Majesty, and several of the Nobility and Gentry to that unfortunate Gentlewoman. II. Damon's dispair, a Soliloquy. III. Stephen Duck's Translation from the Threshing floor to the Court. IV. Alexis's Farewel. V. On the mutability of sublunary Things, and their Insufficiency to Happiness. VI. The abandon'd shepherd, a Pastoral Tale.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 24985, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/24985. Accessed 2024-12-22.

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  author={Unknown,},
  year={1737},
  title={The artless muse: being six poetical essays on various subjects. By a person in obscure life. Viz. I. A poem to the memory of John Milton, the British Homer: Occasioned by a Letter, some Time since published, in behalf of his daughter, Mrs. Clark, who then subsisted on the Labour of her poor Son, a Weaver in Spittle-Field: Lamenting, the Ingratitude of his Country to the Manes of that incomparable Bard; and celebrating the Royal Bounty of her Present Majesty, and several of the Nobility and Gentry to that unfortunate Gentlewoman. II. Damon's dispair, a Soliloquy. III. Stephen Duck's Translation from the Threshing floor to the Court. IV. Alexis's Farewel. V. On the mutability of sublunary Things, and their Insufficiency to Happiness. VI. The abandon'd shepherd, a Pastoral Tale.},
  publisher={Daniel Farmer \& Jacob Robinson [Strand] \& Henry Whitridge [Royal Exchange] \& Anne Dodd I},
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