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BELLAMY's APOLOGY Vol. V.

Despondency on the Steps of Westminster Bridge.

Printed for J.Bell British Library Strand London March 11786.

APOLOGY

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GEORGE ANNE BELLAMY,

LATE OF COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.

WRITTEN BY HERSELF.

To which is annexed,

Her original Letter to JOHN CALCRAFT, Efq.. advertised to be published in October 1767, but which was then violently fuppreffed.

"The Web of our Life is of a mingled Yarn, Good and Ill "together; our Virtues would be proud, if our Faults whipt "them not; and our Crimes would despair, if they were not "cherished by our Virtues."

All's Well that Ends Well, A& 4, Scene iii,

And fold by J. BELL, at the British-Library, STRAND.

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LETTER XCI.

December 22, 17

Now found all my theatrical expectations fruftrated. Although, but a few days before, they feemed to be refuming their wonted fplendour, and bid fair to be productive of at least fome years of unclouded funfhine, in a moment an envious gloom darkened the profpect. Tranfient, as "when a fable cloud turns forth her filver lining "to the night," was the flattering hope. But fuch was my lot.

I could by no means have wifhed for an engagement, unless it was on condition of being reinftated in most of the parts that had been in my poffeffion, together with my quota of new ones; and as to requefting a favour of that kind from Mr. Woodward, I reprobated the very thought. I could not for a

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