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ON EDWARD PURDON.42

Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed,
 Who long was a booksellers’ hack;
 He led such a damnable life in this world,
 I don’t think he’ll wish to come back.

FOOTNOTES:

42 Edward Purdon was educated at Trinity College, Dublin; but having wasted his patrimony, he enlisted as a foot soldier. Growing tired of the army, he obtained his discharge, and became a scribbler in the newspapers. He translated Voltaire’s Henriade, and died in 1767.