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<Author>Defoe, Daniel</Author>
<Title>Moll Flanders</Title>
<Edition>G. A. Starr, ed. London: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1971</Edition>
<Date>1722</Date>
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<loc><locdoc>DefMoll</locdoc>
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<p>MY True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers
at <i>Newgate,</i> and in the <i>Old-Baily,</i> and there are some things
of such Consequence still depending there, relating to my
particular Conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set
my Name, or the Account of my Family to this Work;
perhaps, after my Death it may be better known, at present
it would not be proper, no, not tho' a general Pardon should
be issued, even without Exceptions and reserve of Persons
or Crimes.
<p>IT is enough to tell you, that as some of my worst Com-
rades, who are out of the Way of doing me Harm, having
gone out of the World by the Steps and the String, as I often
expected to go, knew me by the Name of <i>Moll Flanders;</i> so
you may give me leave to speak of . . .
