Sharpe, Hon. Horatio
Shawmut

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Mend, (Gentle Reader) what escapes amiss,
And then it matters not whose Fault it is;
For, all men sin, since Adam first Transgrest :
The Printer sins; I sin much like the rest :

Yet here our Comfort is, though both Offend,
We to our Faults can quickly put—

AN END.1

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Capt. George Wharton, "Student in Astronomy," author of "HEM-
EROSCOPEION," 1652.