The Covent Garden Calendar

The Magdalen by William Dodd (1780)

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THE
MAGDALEN,

OR HISTORY OT THE
FIRST PENITENT

RECEIVED INTO
THAT CHARITABLE ASYLUM;

IN A SERIES OF
LETTERS TO A LADY.

WITH ANECDOTES OF
OTHER PENITENTS,

BY THE LATE
REV. WILLIAM DODD, L. L. D.

DEDICATED TO THE REV. MR. HARRISON,
CHAPLAIN TO THE MAGDALEN HOSPITAL.

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WERE you, ye fair, but cautious whom ye trust,
Did you but think how seldom fools are just;
So many of your sex would not in vain
Of broken vows and faithless men complain:
Of all the various wretches love has made,
How few have been by men of sense betrayed,
Convinced by reason, they your power confess;
Pleased to be happy, as you're pleased to bless;
And conscious of your worth, can never love you less. Rowe.

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LONDON:
PRINTED FOR W. LANE, LEADEN-HALL
STREET.

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