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THE

FOOL of QUALITY;

R, THE

HISTORY

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HENRY Earl of MORELAND.

CHAP. XVII.

The HISTORY of a REPROBATE.

I

KNOW not, Gentlemen, faid he, who my parents were. I was found, when an infant, wrapped in rags on a cobler's bulk, in Weftminster. The parishofficers fent me to the poor-house; and, when I was capable of inftruction, they fent me to the charity-school.

When I had learned to read and write, I was bound, for a fervant, to Mr Skinner, a neighbouring attorney. My mistress

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