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Joanna Baillie: What custom hath...

Source: DRAMATISTS

What custom hath endeared
We part with sadly, tho we prize it not.

Source: Basil, Act I, Sc. 2, 1798.
-- Joanna Baillie, (Sep 11 1762-1851), Scottish poet, dramatist; Her plays, mainly in verse, were highly praised at a period when serious drama was in decline; wrote her Plays on the Passions, 3 vol., 1798-1812.


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