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Subject: VERTUE, GEORGE (1684-1756)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` VERSES UNDER A PORTRAIT OF THOMAS BRITTON, A COAL MERCHANT, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though doomed to small-coal, yet to arts applied
Last Line: Had kneller painted, and had vertue graved.
Variant Title(s): Lines
Subject(s): Britton, Thomas (1644-1714); Coal Mines & Miners; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Music & Musicians; Vertue, George (1684-1756); Kniller, Gottfried