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Show DAVI GARRICK 1708, she ty f\)\\owing lin Ck afte t pla spot forsake v l Before ey 5 What gratitude can give,-my wishes take Upon your hearts may no affliction prey Which cannot by the stage be chas'd a\va}f And may the stage, to please each virtuous mind Grow ev'ry day more moral, more refin'd Refin'd from grossness, not by foreign skill Weed out the poison, bivit be English still ¢ life 1 pas ; s my last To all my brethren, whom T leave behind ke Still may your bounty, as to me, be kind ake To me for many years your favours flow'd ll art Humbly receiv'd,-on small desert bestow'd ateful heart For which I feel-what cannot be express'd Words are too weak-my tears must speak the rest dismay'd Ve il'} o flow s ~ this patheti manner that great actres took her leave of the stage. She died at Bath i ShO Befor the month of August following lamented b i |