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And what can Nancy say, seeing herself depriv’d thus of her favourite Urchin for a time unlimited —

But Titania resumes the more favorable part of her character and gently admonishes her Oberon to let her have him soon again, — She is grateful for his Monday’s Letter and for the Sonnet which she approves throughout, and in return she sends the Poet a Description of a late design made for his friend S^r W:^m’s Monument —

A Profile Medalion [sic] of S^r W:^m bound with Olive, — underneath the Scales of Justice, on one side two Mourning Pundits, and on the other a most beautiful & Interesting Group \In Flaxman’s Stile/ an Indian Woman with her children weeping the loss of their Protector

on the top of the Architecture which forms the Whole is a spreading choir of angels singing “Peace on Earth, Good will toward Men,” treated in the same visionary manner with the well known business of Love & Pity — a line in the Epitaph suggested the Idea and it is highly approv’d of by