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Spoken by Mr. Woods on his benefit-night, Monday, 16th April, 1787.
When, by a generous Public's kind acclaim, / That dearest meed is granted-honest fame; / Waen here your favour is the actor's lot, / Nor even the man in private life forgot; / What breast so dead to heavenly Virtue's glow, / But heaves impassion'd with the grateful throe?