AS it is often pleafing to the Reader to be made acquainted with the accidental origin of a Poem, I {hall not difiemble ehat the following took its rife from a {hort paragraph which appeared in the public prints a few years ago. The pur port oi it Was, that a nobleman of great rank at Vienna had been condemned to the mines; and that his Wife, a lady of high extraetion, and in the bloom of youth and beauty, had taken the defperate refolution of lharing his fate, and of accompanying.

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