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I remember to have seen one of these imposters some years ago in the north of England, who made a very hermit-like appearance, and went up and down the streets of Newcastle with a long train of boys at his heels, muttering, 'Poor John alone, alone!' I thought he pronounced his name in a manner singularly plaintive. In a note Brand adds that
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Poor John alone is
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He mentions a portrait of this man, painted for Sir William Musgrave, Bart., which was inscribed
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Poor Joe alone!