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John Collins

(d. 1808) Actor and writer, was a staymaker, but took to the stage, on which he was fairly successful. He also gave humorous entertainments and puborn Scripscrapologia, a book of verses. He is worthy of mention for the little piece, To-morrow, beginning "In the downhill of life when I find I'm declining," characterised by Palgrave as "a truly noble poem."

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