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Jane Brereton

“The picture, placed the busts between, / Adds to the thought much strength: / Wisdom and Wit are little seen, / But Folly's at full length.”
- Jane Brereton,
- "On Mr. Nash's Picture at Full Length, Between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope," in The Gentleman's Magazine (1741)

Jane Brereton, English poet

(1685 - 1740)

Full name: Jane Hughes Brereton.