ABSTRACT
[First published in The World, 28 February 1789. ‘Leonardo’, one of Robert Merry’s pseudonymous creations, had serenaded Laura in his ‘To Laura’, which begins thus: Laura! I heard the warbled woes, At fading Twilight’s solemn close: They met me in yon dreary vale, Just as the Ringdove ceased her tale. A tale like thine, which seem’d to speak, That soon her wounded heart would break! 1 ]
