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Add. MS a/738/ff. 64–70
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‘Verses sent by a Gentleman to his Lady, with a Knife’ (by Samuel Bishop)
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(1767–1790)
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First line: ‘A Knife, dear girl, cuts love they say’.
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Printed, under the heading ‘For the New Scots Spy. Verses. By a Gentlemen [sic] to his Lady, with a present of a Knife’, in The New Scots Spy, 29 Aug. 1777, p. 31. Reprinted in other journals and miscellanies, including The New Foundling Hospital of Wit (1784 ed.), vol. v, p. 31–2 (cf. ff. 15r–17r above), and, under the title ‘To Mrs. Bishop, with a Present of a Knife’, in The Poetical Works of the Rev. Samuel Bishop, A.M. (1796), vol. ii, pp. 16–18.
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This description was created by A. C. Green in 2025.