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INTRODUCTION BEGGAR, PLAYER. Beggar. If Poverty be a Title to Poetry, I am sure no-body can dispute mine.  I own myself of the Company of Beggars; and I make one at their Weekly Festivals at St. Giles’s.  I have a small Yearly Salary for my Catches, and am welcome to a Dinner there whenever I please, which is more than most Poets can say. Player.  As we live by the Muses, it is but Gratitude in us to encourage Poetical Merit wherever we find it.  The Muses, contrary to all other Ladie