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 A lA O D E R K 
 
 EPIC POEM 
 
 In four cantos. 
 
 
 ilrgo Ron facis eH riAi dldvcere riAum 
 Auditoris: eteftqucdtm camcn hie quoqne Tirtgf* 
 Eft brevicate opus, ut currac fententia* ncu fe 
 Impcdiac verbis UlTas onerantibus aures. 
 ficrermo le opus eft modo criftr, fclpe jocofoy 
 Defendente vicem modo Rhetoris* acque PoetKj; 
 Uncerdutn urbani. pareentis rirthtts acque 
 Ixccnuaneis eas confulco. Ridiculum acri 
 l^orciiu ec melius masaas plerumque fecac ret* 
 
 Horac I.ib. x. fac. z#j 
 
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 The TpWig.MEETING,A.]\f. 
 
 WHEN Yankies, flcill'd in martial rule, 
 Firfl put the Britifh troops to fchool & 
 In{lru£l:ed them in warlike trade. 
 And new manceuvres of parade ; 
 The true war-dance of Yanky-reels, 
 And manual exjerctft of heels ; 
 Made them give up, like faints complete^ 
 The arm of neih and truft the feet, 
 And work, like Chriilians undiiTembling^ 
 Salvation out, by fear and trembling ; 
 Taught Percy faihionable races. 
 And modern modes of Che vy-ch aces : 
 from Boiton, in his beft arrfy, 
 ^re^t 'jS^tuire JNl'Flngal took his way^ 
 
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 Atid rraced with enfigns of renown, ♦ 
 
 StceiM homeward to his native town. , 
 
 His high defcent our heralds trace 
 To* OiTiiin'b famed Fingalian race : 
 F^r rho* their name fome part may lack, 
 O 1 Fingil fpelr it with a Mac : 
 Wiich great M*Pl^erfon, with iubmiflio^ 
 We hope will add, the next edition. 
 
 His tithers flourifh'd in the Highlands 
 Of Sjotia's tog-benighted iflands ; 
 Whence gain'd our 'Squire two gifts by rig ht, 
 R-l)ellipn 2^nd the Sccond-fi^ht. 
 O^ thefe the firfl, in anoient days, 
 H id sifainM the noblell palms of praife, 
 *GaInlt Kings Itood forth animany acrown'dhc»4 
 Wi'h terror of its might confounded ^ 
 Till rofe a King with potent charm 
 His foes by goodnefsto difarm, 
 Whom ev'ry Scot ^nd Jacobite 
 Srrait fell in loye with, atfirft figbt; 
 Whofe gracious fpcech, with aid of penfions^ 
 IIulhM down all murmurs of diflenfions, 
 And with the found of potent metal, 
 BroiigT=Jt all their bluftVing fwarms t« fettlt ; 
 Who rainM his mmiilerial mannas. 
 Till loud Sedition fupghofannahs ; 
 The good Lords-Bifticps and the Kirk 
 "United in the public work ; 
 Rebellion from the northern regions, 
 With Bute and Mansfield fwore allegiance } 
 And all combined to raze as nuifance. 
 Of church and ftate, the conftitutions ; 
 P'lU down the empire, on whofe ruins 
 
 They meant to edify their new ones j 
 
 Enilave 
 
 * Set Finical, att atitieiie Ipic tocm, published as the 
 ynrk of Ofli tn, a Caledonian Bard, ef the third centtipy ^ 
 ^jr JancsMTitcrfoN, aScoicbmiNlAerial (cri*bbl(f» ' 
 
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 ]Pnf!avc th' American wildcrncflcs. 
 And tear the provinces in pieces 
 For thefc our 'Squire aniong the valiant'ft| 
 £mploy'd his time and tools and talents i 
 And in their caufe with manly zeal 
 tJfed his firft virtue, to rebel ; 
 And found this new rebellion pleafing 
 As his old kin^-deftroyinsf treafon. 
 Nor lefs avail'd his optic fleight. 
 And Scottifli gift of fecond-fignt. 
 No anticnt fybil fam'd in rh)rmc • 
 
 Saw deeper m the womb of time } 
 No block in old Dodona's grove. 
 Could ever more oracular prove. , 
 Nor only faw he all that was. 
 But much that never came to pafs ; 
 Whereby all Prophets far outwent he, 
 Tho' former days produc'd aplenty : 
 For any man with half an eye, *. 
 
 What ftands before him may efpy j 
 But optics (harp it needs I we^n. 
 To fee what is not to be fcen. 
 As in the days of antient fame 
 Prophets and poets were the fame. 
 And all the praife that poets gain 
 Is but for what th* invent and feign : 
 So gain'd our *Squire his fame by feeing 
 Sucn things as never would have being. 
 Whence he for oracles was grown 
 The very f tripod of his town. 
 'Gazettes no fooner rofe a lye in, 
 But (trait he fell to prophefying ; 
 ^/lade dreadful flaugnter in his courfe, 
 Overthrew provincials, foot and horfe j 
 
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 |rkich ^ aaticiu pricfts jKtKrcii iktir •racics. 
 
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 Croucflit armies o*er by fudden prefll^gi 
 Of Hanoverians, Swiu and Heflians^ 
 Feafted with blood his Scottifh clan^ 
 And hanVd all rebels, to a man ; . 
 Divided tneir eftates and pelf. 
 And took a goodly (hare Mmfelf* 
 A]] this with fpirit energetic. 
 He di(J'b\- fecond-fight prophetic. 
 
 Thus (lor'd with intefle£tual richesi 
 Skiird was our 'Squire .in making fpeeches. 
 Where ftrength of brains united centers 
 With ftrength of lungs furpafllng Stentor's* 
 But as fome mufquets fo contrive it, 
 A s oft to mifs the mark they drive at, 
 And tho' well aim'd at duck or plover. 
 Bear wide and kick their owners over : 
 So far*d our 'Squire, whofe reasoning toil 
 Would often on himfelf recoil. 
 And fomuch injur'd more hisHde, ' 
 The ftronger arguments he applied : 
 As old war->elephsy;its difmay'd, 
 Trode down the troops they came to aid, * 
 And hurt their own fide more in battle 
 Than lefs and ordinary cattle. 
 Yet at town-meetings cv*ry chief 
 Pinn'd faith on great M'jFingars fleevf , 
 And as he motion'd, all l?y rote 
 RaivsM fympathetic hands to vote. 
 
 The town, our Hero's fcene of a£^ion^ 
 Had long been torn by feuds of fad^ion. 
 And as each party's ftrength prevails, ' 
 It turn'd up dift'rent, heads or tails i 
 lyith conftant rattl'ing in a trice 
 Show'd various fides as oft as dice : 
 As that fam'd weaver, * wife t' UlyfTcs, 
 py night each dsiy's-work pick'd in pieces^ 
 
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 And Ao* (he ftoutly did bcftir hef, 
 
 Its finiftiing was ne'er the nearer : 
 
 "So did this town with (ledfaft zeal 
 
 Weave cob-webs for the public wealf 
 
 Which when compleated, or before, 
 
 A iccond vote in pieces tore. 
 
 They met, made fpeechcs full long winded/ 
 
 RefolvM, protcft'ed, and refcinded j 
 
 Addreffcs fign'd, thenchdfe Committees^ 
 
 To ftopall drinking.of Bohea-tcas} ., 
 
 With winds of dodtrine veer'd about. 
 
 And turn'd all Whig-Committees out. 
 
 Meanwhile our Hero, as their head. 
 
 In pomp the tory faaipn led, 
 
 Still following, as the 'Squire fhoiild pleaft^ 
 
 Succeflive on, like files of geefe^ 
 
 And now the town was lummonM greeting^ 
 To grand parading of town-meeting J 
 A (how, that (I rangers might appall. 
 As Rome's grave fenate did the Gaul. 
 Iligh. o'er the rout, on pulpit-ftairs. 
 Like den of thieves in noufe of pray Vs, 
 (That houfe, which loth a rule to break^ 
 Serv'd heav'n but 6ne day in the week^ 
 Open the reft for all fupplies 
 Oi news and polhics and lies) 
 Stood forth the conftable,> and bore 
 His ftaiF, like Merc'ry's wand of yore, 
 Wav'd potent round, the peace to keep^ 
 As that laid dead men's fouls to ileep. 
 Above and near th' hermetic ftafF, 
 The moderator's upper half. 
 In grandeur o'er the cufliion bow'd, 
 liike Sol half-feen behind a cloud. 
 Beneath ftood voters of all colours,- 
 Whi|;«, toricsi orators and bawlers, 
 
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 With cvVjr tonf uc in cither fa6\iori, 
 I'rcparcd, like miniitc-mcn, for a£\ion ;^ 
 Where truth and falfhood, wrong and rign^i 
 ftraw all their legions out to fight | 
 With equal uproar, fcarccly rave 
 Oppofing winds in JEo\\is* cave i 
 Such dialogues with earned face. 
 Held never Balaam with his afs. 
 
 With daring zeal and courage bleft 
 Honorius iird the crowd addrefs'd ; 
 When now our 'Squire returning laMy 
 Arrived to aid the grand debatt, 
 With (Irange four faces fat him dowii^ 
 While thus the orator went on. 
 
 ** *«*For ages bled, thus Britain rofd 
 The terror of encircling foes ; 
 Her heroes rulM the bloddy plain ; 
 Her conq'ring (landard awM the main i 
 The diftVent palms her triumphs graccj 
 Of arms in war, of arts in peace : 
 Unharrafs'd by materniil care, 
 Each rifing province fldurifti'd faif { 
 Whofe various wealth with lib'ral hand. 
 By far o'er^ipaid the parent-land. 
 But tho' fo bright her fun mi^ht (hine, ' 
 
 *Twasquicklyhafting to decline, ^ 
 With feeble rays, too weak t* afTuage, . 
 The damps, that chill the eve of age. 
 
 For dates, like men, are doom'd as well 
 Th'- infipmiHesof age to feel $ 
 And from their difPrent forms of empire 
 Are feiz'd with ev'ry deepdidemper. 
 Some dated high fevers have made head irif 
 Which nought could cure but copious bleeding | 
 ^hile \)ther8 have grown dull and dozy, 
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 £ac?i peaceful habitant aiid neighbour i 
 
 grvex'd with hypocondriac fits, 
 ave broke their ilrcngth and lo(t their witi^ • 
 Thus now while hoary years prevail, 
 Qood Mother Britain fecm'd to fail ; . 
 Jler back bent', crippled with the weignt 
 Of a^e and debts and cares of (late : 
 For debts (he ow'd^ and thofe fo large, 
 
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 {ler arms, of nations once the dread, 
 She fcarce could lift above hierhead ; . 
 tier deafened ears ('twas all their hope) 
 The final trump perhaps might ope. 
 So long they'd peen in ftiipid mood. 
 Shut to the hearing pf all good, j 
 Grim Death had put her in his fcroll, 
 t)own on theiexecution-roll i 
 And Gallic cro\V8| as (tie grew weakerj 
 Began to ^het their beaks to pick her; 
 And now her powVs decaying fi^ft. 
 Her grand dim a£t'ric bad ilie paft. 
 And, jufk like all old women elfe, 
 fell in the vapours much by fpells. . 
 Strange whimfies on her fancy (truck; 
 And gave her brain a difmal (hock ; 
 Her m^m'iy fails, her judgment ehcU i 
 She quite forgdt tier ncared friends. 
 Loft all her former fcnfe and knowlcdigel 
 And fitted faft forBeth'lem college j 
 Of all the pdw'rs (he once retain'd. 
 Conceit and pride alone remainM. 
 As Eve when falling was fo modcft 
 T* fancy (he (hould grow a goddcfs ; 
 
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 Ai madmen, ftratir wBo long liave ficpi tUf 
 tVill ftile them, Jopiter or Neptune i 
 J^o Britain 'midft hner airs fo flighty, 
 Inow took a whini to be Almighty ;• 
 UrgM on to defp'rate heights of frenzy, 
 Affirm'dhercywn Gmnipotency j 
 Would rather' ruin all her race, 
 Than 'bate SupreAiacy an ace f ■ 
 
 AlTumcd all rights divine, as jrrown 
 The churches ncad,like goodil^ope Joaii ^ 
 Swore all the world (hould bow and &i|) 
 *£o her almighty Goodyfhip j 
 Anath'matiz'd each unbeliever. 
 And vow'd to live and rule forever* 
 Her fervants humour'd every whim, 
 And own'd at oii.ce her ^ow r fupremey 
 Her follies {ileas'd in ail theiif flages^ 
 iJ'or fake of legacies and wages ; 
 i\\ * Subhen*s Chapel theft in ^ate too 
 ^et up her golden calf to pray to, . 
 Proclaim'd its pow'r and right divine, 
 And caird for worihip at its (hrine. 
 And for poor Heretics to burn us 
 Bade North prepare hi§ fiery furnace ; . 
 Struck bargains with the Komilh churcliei' 
 Infallibility to purchafe ; 
 Set wide for I'opery the door. 
 Made friends with Babel's fcarlet whore,' 
 Join*d both the matrons firm in clan $ 
 Jno filters made a better fpari. 
 No wonder then, ere this was over, 
 That (he (hould make her children fufFei*. 
 She firfl:, without pretence of reafbn, 
 , ^Claim'd rigbtwriatc'er We fiad to feize on j ^ 
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 ^.nd with dcterminM refolution 
 
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 imatvity. 
 
 For ihe, her cafe grown defperater, ' ' 
 
 Miftook the plaineit -things in nature j 
 Had loft all uf« of eyes or wits ; 
 Took flav'ry for the bill of rights ; 
 Tiembled at Whigs and deemM them focs^ 
 And ftoppM at loyalty her nofe ; 
 8tiled her own children, brats and caitiffs. 
 And knew us not from th' Indian natives. 
 
 What tho' with fupplicating pray'r 
 We be^g'd our lives and goods (he'd fpare ; 
 Not vanter vpws, with fillier call, 
 Elijah's prophets raised to Paal 5 
 A worftiippM ftock of god, or goddefs. 
 Had better heard and underftood vs. 
 So once Egyptians at the Nile 
 Ador'd their guardian Cfocodile, 
 Who heard them firft with kindeft car, 
 And ate them to reward their pray'r 5 
 And could he talk, as kirigs caii do, 
 J^Iad made as gracious fpeeches too. 
 
 Thus fpite of pray'rs her fchemes pyrfuing, 
 She ftill went on to wofk our ruin \ 
 Annuird our charters of releafes. 
 And tore our title-deeds in pieces ; 
 Then fignM her warrants of ejeftion. 
 And gahows rais'd to ft retch our necks on f 
 And on thefe enands fent in rage, 
 Her bailiff, and her hangman, Gage, 
 And at his heels, like dogs to bait us, * 
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 No ftate e'er chofe a fitter perfon, 
 Tq carry fu^ph a filly farce on.. 
 
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 As Heathen ^ods in antient days 
 ileceiv'd at fecond-hand their praife, 
 $tood imag'd forth in flones'and ftockfj 
 And deified in barber's blpcks j 
 So Gage \irab phofe to rcprefent 
 Th' omnipotence of Parliainent. 
 And as old heroes gainM, by fhifts, 
 From gOds, as poets tell) their gifts \ 
 Our Gen'ral, as his actions (how, 
 Gain*d like ai^ftance from below. 
 By Satan graced with full fi^)plie8. 
 From all his magazine of lies. 
 Yet could hi^ pradiice ne'er impart 
 The wit to tell ^ lie with art. 
 Thofe lies alon<; are formidable, 
 Where artful truth is mixt with fable || 
 But -Gage has bungled oft fo vilely 
 No foul would credit lies fo filly, 
 Outwent all faith and ftretch'd bey on''. 
 Credulity's extremeft end. 
 "Whence plain it fccms tho* Satan once 
 O'erlook'd with fcorn each brainlcfs dunce,^ 
 And blund'ring brutes in Eden fliunning, ' 
 Chofe out the ferpent for his cunning 5 
 Of late he is not half fo nice. 
 Nor picks ailiftants, 'caufe they're wife. 
 For had he ftpod upon perfection. 
 His prefent friends had loft th' eleftion, 
 And far'd as hard in this proceeding, 
 As owls and a^es did in Eden. . ' ^ 
 
 Yet fool^ are often dangerous cncmicj, 
 As meaneft reptiles nrc nioft venomous ;' 
 Nor e'er could Gage by craft and prowefs 
 "Have done a whit more mifchief to us ; 
 Ift^ince he began th' unnatural war, 
 Wibe work his mafters fent him for. 
 
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 And are there in this frccborn hn4 
 Among ourfelyes a venal band, 
 A daftard race, who long hare fold 
 ^heir fouls and confcicnces for gold ; 
 ^ho wifh to llab their country's vitals. 
 If they might heir furviving titles 5 
 With joy beho)d our mifchicfs brewin^^- 
 Infult and triumph in our ruin ? 
 priefts who, if Satan ftiould (it downy 
 To make ^ Bible of his own, 
 Would gladly for the fake of mitres. 
 Turn his infpir*d and facrcd writers j 
 Lawyers, who fhould he wifti to prove 
 His title t' his old fes^t above. 
 Would, if his caufe heM give *«m fees inj^ 
 •^ring writs of Entry fur d'tjfeyfn^ 
 Plead for him boldly at the leflion, 
 And hope to put him in poCeflion 5 - 
 Merchants who, for his kindly aid, 
 Would make him puttiers in their trade. 
 Hang out their figns in goodly (how, 
 Infcrib'd with " Bd%ehuh and Co." 
 And Judges, who would lift his pages. 
 For proper liveries an4 wages4 
 And who as humbly cringe and bow 
 To all his mortal fervants now ? 
 There are ; and fhame with pointing gefturci, 
 Marks out th' Addreflers and Proteiters ; 
 Whom, following down the ftream of fat^. 
 Contempts ineflFible await. 
 And public infamy forlorn, 
 pread hate and everlafting fcom.*' 
 
 As thus he fpake, our 'Squire M*Fingal 
 Gave to his partizans a fignal. 
 Kot quicker rolFd the waves to land, 
 !jV|}cn ^^ofea wav'd his potent wand, * 
 
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 ffor with more uproar^ than the Tories 
 
 iSet up a ^en'ral rout in chorus j (jeered t 
 
 LaughMi hifsMy hemM, murmur'd^ groan'4 ?i># 
 
 Hoaorius now could fcarce be heard. 
 
 Pur Mufe amjd th' increaiing roar. 
 
 Could not di(iin|^ui(h one word more f 
 
 Tho' Ihe fat by> m firm record 
 
 To take in (hort-hand cv'ry word ^ 
 
 As antient Mufes wont, to whom 
 
 Old Bards for depoHtions come \ 
 
 "Who mud have writ 'eni ; for how elfe 
 
 Could they each fpeech verbatinf, tell 'a f 
 
 And tho' fome readers of romances 
 
 Ar« apt to (train their torturM fancies^ 
 
 And doubt, when lovers all aloijie 
 
 Their fad foliloquies do groan, 
 
 Qrieve many a page with no one near 'cm. 
 
 And nought but rocks and groves to hear 'em^ 
 
 What fpright infernal could have tattled. 
 
 And told the authors all t\^ prattled ^ 
 
 Whence fome weak minds have made obje£Uoiai| 
 
 That what they fcribbled muil be ££tion f 
 
 ' Tis falfe \ for while the lovers fpokci 
 
 The Mufe was by, with table-book. 
 
 And lead feme bli^nder might enfue. 
 
 Echo flood clerk and kept the cue. 
 
 And tho' the fpeech ben't worth a groat,- 
 
 As ufual, *tisn' t the author's fault. 
 
 But error merely of the prater, 
 
 Who fhouldhave talk'd to th* purpofe better : 
 
 Which full excufe, my critic-brothers. 
 
 May help me out, as well as others ; 
 
 And 'tis defign'd, tho' here it lurk, 
 
 To ferve as preface to this work. 
 
 So let it be — for now our 'Squire 
 
 ^o longer coi^ld contain his ire \ 
 
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 Ani nCing 'midft applatiding Tories,- 
 Thus vented wrath upon Honorius. , 
 
 Quoth he,, ** 'Tis wondrous what ftrangeilu* 
 Your Whig's-heads are compounded of j 
 Which force of logic cannot pierce 
 Nor fyllogiftic carte ^ tierce^ 
 Nor weight of fcripture or of rcafon 
 Suffice to make the leaft itnprenion.' 
 Not heedingf what ye raif'd conteft on, 
 Ye prate, and beg or fteal the qiieftion ^ 
 And when your DOjifted arguings fail. 
 Strait leave all reafning off, to rail. 
 Wave not our High-Church Qlergy made it 
 Appear from fcriptures which ye credit,- 
 That right divine from heav'n was lent 
 To kings, that is the Pajliament, 
 Their fubje£ts to opprefs and teaie, 
 And ferve the Devil when they pleafe ? 
 i)id they not write and pray ahjA preachy 
 And torture all the ^i^ts ofli^eJhl 
 About Rebellion make a potnter, \ 
 li'rom one end of the land tp th' other ? 
 And yet gain'd fewer profMyie Whigs, 
 Than old *Stv Anth'ny 'mongft the ptgs j 
 And chang'd not half to many vicious 
 As Auftin, when he preach'd to tidies ;- 
 Who throng*d to hear, the legend tcllt^ 
 Were edified and wagg*^d their tails : * 
 
 JJut fcarce youM prove it, if you tried. 
 That e*cr one Whig was edined. 
 tlave ye not heard from f Parfon Waltef 
 Much dire prefage of many a halter ? 
 What warnings had ye of your duty 
 From our old Rev'rend fSam. Auchmuty ? 
 
 Froiw* 
 
 * The (lories of St. AnAony and his pig, and Sr, AmRit/g 
 
 reaching to fishes, are told in the Popish legends. , 
 Hl§h'Clttirch*Clcr|jrmtn, «acac B©fleB, oa« «tN<Tr-"?otfc 
 
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 From Prlefts 6f all degrees and meti^esj . 
 T* our fag-end man poor % Parfon Peters f 
 Have notour Cooper and our Seabury 
 Sung bymnsj like Barak and old Deborah ) 
 ProT'd all intrigues to fet you free 
 Rebellion 'gainft the powers that he ; 
 P nought overiiiany a fcripture text 
 'rhat ufed to wi^fc at febel fe^s, 
 CoaxM way w^rd.ones to favour TegentJ^ 
 Or paraphrard them to bbedience 5 
 Proved ev'ry.king, eir'n tbofe cbnfeft 
 Horns of th* Apocalyptic bead, 
 And fprouting from its noddles feven^ 
 Ordain'd, as pifbops are, by heaven ; 
 (Forreafon* fim*lar, asweVe told 
 That Tophet was ordainM of old) 
 By this lay-or,dinat ion valid. 
 Becomes all fant'lified arid hallo^v*d, . . 
 Takes patent oil t When heav'n bis <'ignM if^ 
 And ftarts up ftrait, the Lord's anointed ? 
 Like extreme iin6lion that can cleanfe 
 Each pen/tent from deadly fins, 
 Make them run glib, when oil'd by Prieft^ 
 The heav'nly.road, like wheels newgreaf'd/ , 
 $ervethen1i, iike.fhoeball, for defehtcs 
 'Gainfl wear ^fid tear of corifcienccs : 
 $0 king's anointment cjeans betimes. 
 Like fuller's earth, all fpots of crimes^ 
 i'or future knav'rjes gives commiflion*^ 
 Like Papifts finnJng under licence. 
 
 Fof 
 
 ^ Peters, « Tory-CIergynan in ConnrfticRt, ivho a/ce^ 
 inakiag hisifelf dcteftablcby his inioiicalcondud, ablcond* 
 tdfr^m the conretnpc, rather than the vengeance of his coun-f 
 ^ymen, and fled to England to make complaints againft 
 •iiac colony: Cooper, a write c, poec, and fatyrift of the 
 l^mcftamp^PVefidentof the college at Mcv-York : Sciibii^r/^ 
 a Cler g]ri»9 a of riie fAoit prtvxn«€* 
 
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 For heav*ri ordainM the origin. 
 
 Divines declare, of pain ana fin ; 
 
 ProVe luch great good thejr both have done ti8j 
 
 ^Cind mercy *twa$ they came upon us : 
 
 For without pain arid fiii and folly 
 
 Man ne'er were bleft, or wife, or holy 5 
 
 And we (hould * thank the Lord^ 'tis foj 
 
 As authors grave wrote long agb* 
 
 Now heav*n its iflues never hnngi 
 
 Withbut the means, and thefe are kings 5 
 
 And he, who blames when they announce illsj 
 
 Would, counteract th'eternal counfelsi 
 
 As when the Jewsj Ji ihurm'ring race, 
 
 By conftant grumblinj^s fell from grace^ ^ 
 
 Heav'n taught them nrft to know their didaneli 
 
 By famine', flav'ry and Philidines ; 
 
 When thefe coiild no repentance bringi 
 
 In wrath it fent them latt a king : 
 
 So nineteen, 'tis believ'd, in tT^cnty 
 
 Of modern kings for plagues are fent you 5 
 
 Nor can your cavillers pretend, 
 
 But that they anfwer well their end. p 
 
 *Ti8 yours to yield to their commandi 
 
 As rods^ in Provid ence's hand ; 
 
 And if it means to fend you painj 
 
 You turn your nofes up in vain ; 
 
 Your only way's in peace to bear it^ 
 
 And make neceffity a merit. 
 
 Hence fure perdition niuft await 
 
 The man,.who rifes *gsiinii the ft ate. 
 
 Who nieets at once the damning fentencc^ 
 
 Without one loophole for repentance ^ 
 
 E'en tho' he 'gain the i-oyal fefej 
 
 Arid tank among thep$w*rs that he : 
 
 
 Sec die M[o4er« Mmpb^ncurPlvlaltf, 
 
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 For hell 18 theirs, the fcripturc fliowav 
 Whoe'er t^e powWs that he oppofe, 
 And all thofe pow'rs (I am clear that 'tis fo^ 
 Are damn'd for ever, eti officio. 
 
 Thus far our Clergy j but 'tis true, 
 We lack'd not earthly reaf'ners too^ 
 Had I the * Poet's brazen lungs 
 As found-board to his hundred tongues,^ 
 I could not half the fcriblers mufter 
 Thgtfwarm'd round Rivingtop in clufter i 
 Aflemblies, Councilmen, lorfooth j 
 Brufh, Cooper, Wilkins, Chandler, Booth.- 
 Yet all their arguments and fap'ence, 
 You did not value at three halfpence. 
 J)id not our Maflachufettenfis f 
 For your convi£iioh ftrain his lenfes ? 
 Scrawl ev'ry moment he could fpare. 
 From cards and barbers and the fair ; 
 Show, clear as fun in noonday heavens^- 
 You did not feel a (ingle grievance \ 
 Demonftrate all your oppofition 
 Sprung from the Jeggs of foul fedition ; 
 S weariie had feen the ncft (he laid id. 
 And knew how long fhe had been fitting \ 
 Could tell exa^t what ftrength of heat is 
 Requir'd to hatch her out Committees y 
 Wbat (hapes they take, and hpw much longcrV 
 I'he fpace before they grow t' a Congrefs ? 
 New whitewaih'd Hutchinfon and varnifh'd. 
 Our Gage, who'd got a little tarnifh'id, 
 
 Made 
 
 * Virgil's ^neid, ^fthbook, line^t^ 
 
 j- See a courie of cflays, under the lignaturc of Mad- 
 Chufctcenfis. 
 
 § «« Committees of Correfpofidence are the fouleft and 
 molt venom ousfcrpect, di;&C(y(r itfued from the eggs of 
 {edition," &c^ M«li«iciurftKf nis/ 
 
 KM' 
 
re of MafHi- 
 
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 jMade 'em new mafks, in time no doubt^ 
 
 F. Hutchinfon's was quite worn out j 
 
 And while he muddled all his head^ 
 
 You did not heed a word he faid. 
 
 Did not our grave f Judge Sewall hit 
 
 The fummrt of news-paper wit ? 
 
 Fiird ev'ry leaf of ev*ry paper 
 
 Of Mills and Hicks and mother Draper j 
 
 Drew procUmations, works of toil, 
 
 In true fublime of fcarccrow ftyle ; 
 
 Wrote farces too, 'gainftSons of Freedom, 
 
 All for your good, 3n4 none would read 'em ^ 
 
 Denounc'd damnation on their frenzy. 
 
 Who died in Whig-impenltency 5 
 
 Affirm'd that heaven would lend us aid. 
 
 As all our Toryrwriters faid. 
 
 And calculated fo its kindnefs, 
 
 He told the moment when it join'd us/* 
 
 ** 'Twas then belike, Honorius cried, 
 When you the publit faft defied, 
 RefufM to heay*n to raife a prayer, 
 Becaufe ypu'd no connections there : 
 And fince wit|i rev'rent hearts and faced 
 To Governors you'd made addrefles, 
 In them, who made you Tories, feeing 
 You lived and mov'd and had your being j 
 Youp humble vows you viould not breathe 
 To povv'rs you'd no acquaintance with." 
 
 " As for your fafts, replied our 'Squire, 
 What circumilance could fa^s require ; 
 
 t Attorney-General of Maflachufetts-Bay, a Judge ^f ■ 
 Admiralty, Gage'schief Advifer andproclamation-majier, ' 
 aiuthorof a farce called' the Americans Rouicd, and of a 
 great variety of clTaya on the Miniftcrial fide, in the BoftjbB 
 ^c^s-papcrs, 
 
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 Wc kept them not, but 'twas ho crime | 
 We held them merely lofs of time. 
 For what adrantage nrm and la(ling| 
 pray did you, ever get bjr fafting ? 
 And what the gains thaf ckn arrHe 
 JIFrom vows andofPrings to the (kiies ? 
 Will h^av'n reward with podfs iitnd feel. 
 
 8r fend 'us Tea, as Conugneei. 
 ive peniionsy Tarries^ bTaceSy oribef^ 
 Or chufe us judges, clerks, or fciribes { 
 Hag it commjflions in its gift, ' 
 Of cafh, to fcrve us at a lift f 
 Are aOs t^f parliament there madet 
 To carry on the placeman's trade i" 
 Or has It p^fii'da (ingle bill 
 To let us plunder whom Ire will ? 
 
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 Pr has it councils by man(»mus ? 
 
 Who made that wif of ♦ watter-gtucli 
 
 A Judge of Admiralty, iSeiivallir 
 
 And wefe they not mere earthly ftrugglei, ' 
 
 That raifd up Murray, fay, and Ruggles ? 
 
 Did heav'n fend doWn, our pains to med^cine| 
 
 That'old fimplicitv of Edfoui 
 
 Or by ejcfltion pick but frbtn us, 
 
 That Marflifieldblund'rer Nat. Ray Thohias i 
 
 Or had it any hand in ferving ♦ 
 
 A Loring^ Fepp'^rell, Browne, or Erving ? 
 
 Yet we've fome faints, the very thing, 
 We'll pit againft the beft you'll bring. 
 ^Fd?i^)can the ftrongeft fancy paint 
 Than Hutchinfon a greater faint ? 
 
 greater 
 as there a parfon u(e4 to pray 
 At times* more reg'lar twice a day ; 
 
 ^ Af roper emblem of kisgcaiu$« 
 
 Ai 
 
A* folks exa£\ bare dinn.er8 got. 
 Whether they've appetites or not I 
 Was there a zealot more alarming 
 fGainft public vice to hold forth fermoq. 
 OrfixMat^hurchy whofe inward motio^ 
 l^oU'd up bis eires with more devotion ? 
 What Puritan could fiver pray 
 Jn Godlier tone^ than treaf rer ♦ Gray* 
 Or at town-meetings fpeechify'ngy 
 Could utter more melodious whine. 
 And (hut his eyes and vent his moaq, 
 iiike owl afflicted in the fun ? 
 Wbo qncc fent home his canting rivgl} 
 Lord Dartmouth's felf, might outbedriveLV 
 
 ** HavjC you forgot, Honorius cried. 
 How your primp (^int the truth defied, 
 Alfirm'd be ney^r wrote a line 
 Your chartered rights to uadermine ; 
 When his own letters then were by, 
 That prov'd his mefTage all a lie ? 
 How many promifes be feal'd. 
 To get tb* ppprellive a£ls repealed, 
 Yet once arriv'd on England's (bore. 
 Set on the Premier to pafs more ? 
 But thefe are no ipft&Sf we grant. 
 In a right loyal Tory faipt^ 
 Whofe godlike virtues mi»ft with tzfy 
 Atone fuch venal crimes as thefe ; 
 pr ye perhaps in fcripture fpy 
 A new commandnient, " Thou (halt lie j** 
 And if 't be fo (as who can tell ?) 
 There's no one fure ye keep fo well " 
 
 " Quptb be, For lies and promife-breaking 
 Ye need not be in fttch a taking I ' 
 
 For 
 
 * Trnfurer ofMAtCAthnkm-Bij, tni one «f tke ManfU-; 
 
 fU$ Ceuncil. 
 
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 The hifj^heil privi 
 The univerfal Ma 
 
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 know and teach| 
 ivilegeoffpeechi 
 Magna Charta, 
 To which all human race is partv. 
 Whence children firft, as David fayi^ 
 Lay claim to 't in their earlieft days ^ 
 The only llratagem in war, 
 Our Gen'rals have occafion for ; 
 The only freedom of the prefs 
 Our politicians need in peace : ^ 
 i^nd 'tis a Ihame you wiih t' abridge ut 
 Of thefe our darlmg privileges. 
 Thank heav'n, your Ihot have mifs'd their ainu 
 For lying is no fin, or ihame. ^ 
 
 As men laft wills may change again, 
 Tho' drawn in name of God, amen ; 
 Befure they muljk have much the more. 
 O'er promiibs as great a pow'r, 
 Whicn made in hade, with fmall infpe£lion, 
 So much the more will need corre£lion ; 
 And when they've carelefs fpoke, or penn'd *em. 
 Have right to look 'em o'er and mend 'em } 
 Revife their vows, or change thetext. 
 By way of codicil annex'd, 
 Turn out a promife^ that was bafe. 
 And put a better in its place. 
 So Gage of late agreed, you know, 
 To let the Bofton people go ; 
 Yet when he faw gamft troops that bravM him. 
 They were the only guards that fav'd him. 
 Kept off that Satan of a Putnam, 
 From breaking in to maul and mutt'n him ; 
 He'd too much Wit fuch leagues C obferve,j 
 And (hut them^ in again to ftarVe* 
 
 So Mofes writes, when female Jews 
 Uade oaths and vows unfit for ufe, 
 
 Th«if 
 
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 ifhcir parents then might fct them fret 
 From that confcicntious tyranny : 
 And (hall men feel that fpir'tual bondage 
 Forever, when they grow beyortd age i 
 Nor have pow'r their own oaths to change t 
 I think the tale were very ft range. 
 iShall vows but bind rhe ftout and ftrong^ 
 And let go women weak nnd young. 
 As nets enclofe the larger crew, 
 And let the fmaller fry creep thro' ? 
 Beiides, the Whigs have all been fet on^ 
 The Tories to affright and threaten. 
 Till Gage amidft his trembling fits 
 Has hardlv kept him in his wits ; 
 And tho* he fpeak with art and finefTe^ 
 'Tis faid beneath dure/s per tnittms. 
 For we're in peril of our fouls 
 From feathers, tar and lib'rty-poles : 
 And vows extorted are not bmdmg 
 in law, and fo not worth the mindlngv 
 For we have in this hurly-burly- 
 Sent off our confciences on furlow, 
 Thrown our religion o*er in form ; 
 Our fhip to lighten in the ftorm. 
 Nor need we blufh your IVhigs before ; 
 If we've no virtue you'^ve no more. 
 
 Yet black with fins, would ftain a mitre^^ 
 Rail ye at. crimes by ten tints whiter. 
 And ftufF'd with choler atrabilious, 
 Infult us here for peccadilloes ? 
 While all your vices run fo hij^h 
 That mercy fcarce could find fupply j 
 While (hould you offer to repent, 
 You'd need more fafting days than Lent, 
 More groans than haunted churchyard valltes^ 
 And more confeffions than broad-alleys. 
 
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 I'll fhow you all at fitter time, , ^ 
 
 ^rhe extent and greatnefs of your crime,' 
 And here demonftrate to your face, 
 Your want of virtue, as of grace, 
 Evinced from topics old and recent :' 
 But thus mubh mud fuifice at prefent; 
 To th* iftcr-portion of the day, 
 1 leave what more remains, to fay 5 
 When I've good hope you'll all appearj 
 More fitted and prepared to hear. 
 And gritVd for all your vile demeanour i 
 But now 'tis time t* adjourn for dinner;' 
 
 
 IND OF CANTO FiRsif*. 
 

 M ' F IN G ALi 
 
 CANTO SECOND, 
 
 Oil 
 T-HE fbWN-MEEtlNG.f.M. 
 
 TH E Sun, who never (lops to dine, 
 Two hours had pafs'd the midway Iine^ 
 And driving at his. ufuaJ ratCj 
 Lafh'd on his downward car of flate. 
 And now, expired the (ho rt vacation, 
 And dinner done in epic fafliion ; 
 While all the crew beneath the trees. 
 Eat pocket-pies, pr bread and cheefe ; 
 Norihall we, like old Homer care 
 To verfify their bill of fare. 
 For now each party^ feafted well, 
 Throng*d in, like fheep, at found of bell^' 
 With equal fpirit took their places ; 
 And meeting oped with three Oh yefles : 
 When firft the daring Whigs t' oppofe, 
 Agiin the great M*Fingal rofe. 
 Stretched magifterial arm- amaini 
 And thus aflum'd th* accufing ftrain. , 
 
 ," Ye Whigj attend,' and hear affrighted 
 The crimes whereof ye (land indicted. 
 The fins and follies paft all compafs, 
 That prove you guilty or non compos. 
 I leave the verdi'(^ to your fenfes, , . . - 
 
 And jury of your confciences ; 
 
 ^ WhicS 
 
/WhiA Ao* they're neither good rtof trufe,' 
 
 Mail yet cOnvidi you and your crew.' 
 
 tJngrateful fons ! a fa£lious band, 
 
 That rift againfl your ^arentwlami- ! ^• * 
 
 Ye viperM race, that burft in ftriTc, 
 
 The welcome womb, that gave you life. 
 
 Tear with (harp fangs and forked tongud^ 
 
 Th* indulgent bowels, whence you fprung j 
 
 And fcorn the debt of obligation 
 
 You juftly owe the Britifli nation^ 
 
 Which fi nee you cannot pay, youi crew 
 
 Affe6l to fwfear 'twas nevier du^. 
 
 Did not the deeds of England's Primate 
 
 Firll: drive yoUr fathers to this climate, 
 
 "Whom jails and fines and ev'ry ill 
 
 Forc'd to their good againft their wiH ? ' ' 
 
 Ye owe to their obliging temper 
 
 The peopling your newfangled empire, 
 
 While evVy Britifh a<^ and canon 
 
 $tood fonn you catt/a^ fie ^ua nofj. 
 
 Did they not fend you charters o'er, 
 
 And give you lands you own'd befote, 
 
 ]^ermit you all to fpill yOur blood. 
 
 And drive out heathen where you could 5' 
 
 On thefe mild terras, that conqueft won> 
 
 The realm you gain'd ihould be their own. 
 
 Or when of late attack'd by thofe. 
 
 Whom her cOnne£tion made your foesy' 
 
 Did they not then, diftreft in war. 
 
 Send Gen'rals to your help from far, 
 
 Whofe aid you own'd in terms lefs haughty^ 
 
 And thankfally o'erpaid your qiiota ? 
 
 Say, at what period did they grudge 
 
 To fend you Governor or judge,' 
 
 With all their milEonary crew. 
 
 To teach you lav/ andgof|^d too ? 
 
 ,Birougf|1: 
 
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 l5roug4ito*€r?^l felons in the nation, 
 
 *ro help you on in population ; ' 
 
 PropObM their Jiilhopa to Currender, 
 
 And made their Priells a legal tender, 
 
 Who only alk'd in fujpUce clad, . 
 
 The finiple tyriie ofallyou had : 
 
 And now to keep all knaves in awe, 
 
 Have fent their troops t* euabli(h law^ 
 
 And with gunpowder, fire and ball. 
 
 Reform your people oi;e and all. 
 
 Yet when iheir infolence and pride 
 
 Have anger'd all the world beficje, 
 
 ^y'hen fear and want at once intade. 
 
 Can you refufc to lend the^ aid ; 
 
 And rather rifque your heads in fight, 
 
 Than gratefujly throw in your mite ? 
 
 Can they fof debts fnakc fatigfaflion. 
 
 Should they difpofe their realm by aucVion^ 
 
 And fell off Britain's goods and land all . ^ 
 
 To France and Spain by inch of candle ? 
 
 Shall good king .George, )vith want opprefl^ 
 
 Infert his lianaein bankru{>t lift, 
 
 And fhut up Chop, like failing merchant, 
 
 ThatfearsthebailiiFsfliouJdmake fearch in't^ 
 
 With poverty ihall princes ilrive, 
 
 And nohles Jack whereon to live ? 
 
 Have jhpy not rackM their whole inventionsp 
 
 To feed their brats on pods ^nd penfions. 
 
 Made ev*n Scotch friends witji taxes groan. 
 
 And picked poor Ireland to the bene ; 
 
 Yet have on band as well deferving. 
 
 Ten thoufand baftards left for ftarving ? 
 
 And can you now with eonfcience dear, 
 
 Refufe the.m an afyluni here, 
 
 Or not maintain in manner fitting, 
 
 Tn^efc genuine fons of mother Britain ? 
 
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 T' evade thefc crime* of blackeft graiq. 
 You prate of liberty in vain, * 
 
 And ftrive to hide yoiur vile defigns^ . 
 With terms abftrufe like fcbool-divmes. 
 
 Your boafted patriotifm is fcarce. 
 And country's love is but a farce 5 
 And after all the proofs you bring, ^ 
 We Tories know there's no fuch thing. 
 Our Englifh writers of great fame 
 Prove public virtue but a name. 
 JIath not * Dalrymple Ihow'd in print, 
 And * Johnfoij too, there's nothing in't ? 
 Produc'd you dfemonftration ample 
 From other's and tljeir own example, 
 That felf is ftill, in either faftion, 
 The only principle of aftion ; 
 The loadftone, whofe attracting tether 
 Keeps the politic world together : 
 And fpite of all your double-dealing, 
 We Tories know 'tis fp, by feeling. 
 
 Who heeds your babbling of tranfmittin|f 
 Freedom to brats of your begetting. 
 Or will proceed as though there were a tie. 
 Or obligation to pofterity ? 
 We get 'em, bear *em, breed and nurfe 5 
 "W hat has pofter'ty done for us, 
 That we, left they their rights fliould lofe^ 
 Should truft our necks to gripe of noofe ?* 
 
 And who believes you will not run ? 
 You're cowands,ev*ry mother's fon ^ 
 And fliould you offer to deny. 
 We've witnefles to prove it by. 
 Attend th' opinion firft, as referee, 
 pi your old Gcn'ral, flout Sir Jeffery, 
 I- Whf 
 
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 * MiniAcrlAl Pcniloners, 
 
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 "^ho fworc tjiat with five thoufand foot 
 
 JIcM rout you all, and in purfuit. 
 
 Run thro' the land as eafily, 
 
 ^s camel thro' a needle's eye. 
 
 Did not theJiraliant Col'nel Grant 
 
 ^gainft your couragie make his flant,' 
 
 Aifirm your univerfal failure 
 
 In ev'ry principle of valour, 
 
 And fwear no fcamp'rers e'er could match yoi^. 
 
 So fwift, a bullet fcarce could catch you ? 
 
 And will ye not confefs in this, 
 
 A judge moft competent he is. 
 
 Well Ikill'd on runnings to decide. 
 
 As what himfelf has often tried ? 
 
 ?TwouM not methinks be labour loft, 
 
 If you'd fit down and count the coft j 
 
 And ere you call your Yankies out, ' 
 
 Firfl think what work you've fet about. 
 
 Have yenot rouz'd, his ferce to try on. 
 
 That grim old beaft, the Britifti lion f 
 
 And know you not that at a fup 
 
 He's large enough to cat you up ? 
 
 Have you'furyey'd his jaws beneath, 
 
 prawn inventones of his teeth. 
 
 Or have you weigh -d in even balance 
 
 His ftrength and magnitude of talons ? 
 
 His roar would turn your boalls to fear. 
 
 As eafily as four fmall-beer, 
 
 And make your feet from dreadful fray. 
 
 By native inflih£l run away. 
 
 Britain, depend on't, will take on her 
 
 T' aflert her dignity and honor. 
 
 And ere ihe'd lofe your fhare of pelf, 
 
 Peftroy your country and herfclf. 
 
 For has not North declar'd they fight 
 
 To gain fubftantial rev'nue by'f, 
 
 ''^' -' Denied 
 

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 Denied heM ever deign to treat, 
 
 Till on your knees and at his feet ? 
 
 And feel you not a trifling ague, 
 
 l^'rom Van's Delenda g^ Carthago f 
 
 tor this, now Britain has come to*t. 
 
 Think you (he has not means to do^t \ 
 
 Has (he not fet to work all engines 
 
 To fpirit up the native Indians, 
 
 Send on your backs a favage band. 
 
 With each a hatchet in hisliand, 
 
 T* amiife themfelves with fcalping kniTeiL 
 
 And butcher children and your wives \ 
 
 That (he may boall again with vanity. 
 
 Her Engllfh national humanity ? 
 
 (For now in its priraicvai Tenfe, 
 
 This term, hunpanU^^ comprehends , . 
 
 All things of which, on this fide hclL 
 
 The human nfitiif is capable ; 
 
 j^nd thus 'tis well, by writers fagc^ 
 
 Applied to Britain and to Gage.) 
 
 And on this work to raife allies, 
 
 She fent her dimlicate of Guys, 
 
 To drive, at diii rerjt parts at once, on . 
 
 Her (tout Guy Carlton and Guy Joh'nfoo | 
 
 To each of whom, to fend again ye 
 
 t)Id Giiy of Warw.ick were a ninny % 
 
 Tho* the dun cow he fellM in war, 
 
 Thefe killcows are his better's far. 
 
 And has (he not aflRiy'd her note^. 
 To rouze your (laves to cut your throats, 
 •Sent o'er ambaiFadors with guineas, 
 To bribe your blacks in Carolinas ? 
 And has not Ga^e, her milTionary • 
 Turn'd many an Afric (lave t' a Tory, 
 
 And made thVAtner'can bifliop'^ fee grow, 
 By naapy a new-convefted Negro ? ^ 
 
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 As i^riencts to gov'rnment did not hef 
 Their ilaves at BoRon late fet free i 
 £ali(i them all in black parade. 
 Set off with regimental red ? 
 And v^ere they not accounted then 
 Among his very bravcft mciv ? , 
 
 And wli^n fuch means flie (loops to take^ 
 Think you {he is not wide awake ? 
 As Elibhaz' good man in Job 
 0'wn*d num'rous allies thro* the globe;? 
 Had brought the * iiones along the street 
 To ratify a covenant meet, 
 And ev*ry be aft from lice to lions. 
 To join in leagues.of ftri^. alliance r ' 
 Mas flie not cring'd, in fpi'te of pridc^ 
 For like aiTiftance fur and wide ? 
 "VVas there a creature fo defpifd, . 
 Its aid (k<i has not fought and priJi'd ? 
 Till all this formidable league rofe 
 Gf Indians, Britifli troops and Negroes,- . 
 And can you break th'efe triple bands 
 fiy all your worknnanlhip of hands ?'* 
 . " Sir, ijuoth Honorius, we prefume 
 Ifou guefs from.paft feats^ what's to cpr&e^ 
 And from the migfaty deeds of Gage, 
 Foretell how fierce the war he'U wage, 
 ifou doubtiefs rccolledled here 
 The annals of his firit great year : 
 While wearying put the Tories* patietlce,' 
 He fpent his breath in proclamations ; 
 
 The ftones and SL\i the elements Vich thee 
 Shall raftrfV a flrid tonfcd'racjr J 
 Wild beaft< their (avage tempei shall forget, 
 Aad for 4 firm nlliance with thee treat : &c. 
 
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 ITIiiIe all hi^ mi^^'hty noife and vapour 
 Was ufed in wrangling upon paper \ 
 And hoaftcd military fits 
 Clofcd in the draining of his wits ; 
 "VVhileiroops JnBofton commons plac'4 , 
 Laid nought but quires of paper wafte ; 
 While ftrokes alternate ftunriM the nation,' 
 Protefl:, addrefs and proclamation i 
 And fpeech met fpecch, fib clafh'owith fil?,' 
 And Gap:e ftill anfwerM, fquib for fquib. 
 
 The* f his not all his time was loll on ; 
 He fortified the town of Bofton ; 
 Built brcaftworks that itiicrht lend affiftanc^ . 
 To keep the f)atriots at a diftance ; 
 (J*'or ho wfoe'er the rogues might fcoffi 
 He liked them beft the fartheft off) 
 Of mighty ufe and help to aid 
 His courag^, wh^n he felt afraid ; 
 And whence right off in manful ilaticnV 
 He'd boldiy pop his proclamation. 
 Oar hearts miull in our bofoms freeze 
 At fuch heroic deeds as thefe." ; ^ 
 
 " Vain, guQth the \Squir,e, you'll find to fnc6r 
 At Gaffe's firft triumphant year 9 
 For Providence, difpoi'd to teaze us, 
 Can ufe what iriftrumcntr. it pleafes. 
 To pay a tax at Peter's wifli, 
 
 His chief cafhicr was once a Filh; 
 
 An Afsyfn Balaam's fad di fader, 
 
 Turn'd orator and fav'd his maf^tj^nl";^-'*'- • ^^ 
 
 i\ Goofe placM centry on his ftatioh 
 
 Preferv'd old Rome from defolation \ 
 
 An Englifli BHhop's • Cur of late 
 
 l)ifclofed rebellions *gainflt the date ; , 
 
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 Up Fro^s croak'd Pharaoh ta repentance^ 
 And Lice revcrs'd the.threat'ningfentehce : 
 And hcay*n can ruin you *t pleaTure, 
 hy our fcorn'd Qage, as well as Cxiar. 
 Yet did our hero in thefe days 
 Pick up fome laurel wreaths of praife. 
 And as the flatuary of Seville 
 Made hiscrackt faint an excellent devil j 
 So tho* our war few triumphs brings. 
 We gained great fame in other things. 
 Did not our troops (how much difcerning^ 
 And ll:ill your various arts in learning ? 
 Outwent they not each native Noodle 
 l^y far in playing Yanky-doodle ; 
 Which, as 'twas your New-England tunc^ 
 'Twas marvellous they took fo foon ? 
 And ere the year was fully thro^ 
 Did not they learn to foot it. too j. . 
 And fuch a dance as ne'er was known,^ 
 For twen{y miles on end lead down ? 
 Was there a Yanky trick you knew. 
 They did not play as well as you ? 
 Did they not lay their heads togethcrj' 
 And gain your art to tar and feather. 
 When Col'nel Nefbitt thro' the town^ 
 In triumph bore the country-clown ? 
 Oh, what a glorious work toTmg 
 The vet'ran troops of Britain's king, 
 Advent'ring for th' heroic laurel, 
 With bag of feathers and tar-barrel f 
 To paint the cart where culprits ride, 
 AndNefbitt marching at its fide. 
 Great executioner and proud, 
 Like hangman high on Holbourn road j 
 And o'er the bright triumphal car 
 The waving enfigns of the war ! 
 
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 An when a triumDh Romne decreed,^ 
 For great CaUfj^Ma s valiant deed, 
 Who had fubdued the Brittih feas. 
 By gathering cockles from their bate i 
 In pompous car the conqu'ror bore 
 His captivM fcallcps from tlie (hore. 
 Ovations gain'd hia crabs for fetch ing,- 
 And mighty feats of byfter-catching : 
 0*er Yankies thus the war b*gun. 
 They tarr'd and triumphM over one ; 
 And fought and boafted thro' the feafon/ 
 With might as great, and*equal reafon* 
 Yet thus, tho' Ikill'd in vi^'ry's toils. 
 They boa,ft, not unexp^rt, in wiles. 
 For gainM they n6t an equal fame in 
 The arts of fecrecy, and Ichcming ? 
 In ftratagems (how'd mighty force. 
 And moderniz'd the Trojan horfe, 
 f*lay\i o'er again thofe tricks UlyflcanV 
 In their fam*d Salem-e3fpedition ? 
 For as that horfe, the Poets tell ye. 
 Bore Grecian armies in his belly ; ^ 
 Till their full reck'ning run, with jo^. 
 Their Sinon midwiPd them in Troy r 
 So in one (hip was Leflie bold 
 Cramm*d with three hundred men in hold,* 
 Equipped for ent^rprize and fail. 
 Like Jonas ftow'd in womb of whale. 
 To Marblehead in depth pf night. 
 The cautious veflel wing'd her flight. 
 And now the fabbath's filentday 
 Call'd all your Yankies off to prayj 
 Remov'd each prying jealous neighbour. 
 The fcheme and veffel fell in labour ; 
 Forth from its hollow womb pour'd haft'lf 
 The Myrmidons of Cornel Leflie : 
 
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 Not thicker o'er tht blacken'd ftrsnd 
 The * frogs' detachment rufh'd to land. 
 Equipp'd by onfet or furprize 
 To itorm tV entrenchment of the mict. 
 Thro' Salem itrait without delay^ 
 The bold battalion took its way, 
 March'd o'er a bridge in open fight 
 P{ fev'ral Yankies arm'd for fight. 
 Then without lofs of time, or men 
 Veer'd round for Boflon back again ; 
 And found fo well their projcdts thrive. 
 That ev'ry foul got home alive. 
 
 Thus Gage's arms did fortune bleff 
 With triumph, fafety and fuccefs ; 
 But mercy is without difpute 
 llis fifil aiid d;arling attribute ; 
 So great it far putwent and conquered 
 His military fkill at Concord. 
 There when the war he chofe to wage 
 Shone the benevolence of Gage ; 
 pSent troops to that illromen'd place 
 Pn errands meer of fpecial grace. 
 And all the work he thofe them for 
 Was to f prevent a civil war : 
 And for that purpofe he proje£led 
 The only certain way t' effect it. 
 To take your powder, (lores and arms, 
 And all your means of doing harms : ' 
 As prudent folks take knives away, 
 Jjcfi child ren cut themfelves at play. 
 And yet tho? this was all his fchcme, 
 This war you flill will charge on him ; 
 
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 f See Hornet's battle of the fi'ogt and mice. 
 ]* ^cc Oas€*t «9f¥er to 9oTcm«i Ti^nbvlU 
 
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 And tho* he oft hat fwore and faid it| 
 
 $Mck clofe to fa£l8 und give no credit. 
 
 Thinlc you, he wiih'd you'd brave and beard him I 
 
 Why, 'iwas the very thing that fcar'd him. 
 
 He'd rather you Ihould all have run| 
 
 Than itay'd to fire a fingle gun. 
 
 And for the civil war you lament, 
 
 Faith, you yduri'elves mud take the blame in't > 
 
 For had you then, as he intended, ! 
 
 Giv'n up your arms, it mud have ended. 
 
 Since that's no war, each mortal knowsj 
 
 Where onp fide only gives the blows. 
 
 And th' other bears 'em ; on rc<lle£lion 
 
 The moft you'll call it is corrcftion. 
 
 Nor could the conteft have gone highefi 
 
 If you had ne'er return'd the fire ; 
 
 But when you (hot, and not before, 
 
 It then commenc'd a civil war. 
 
 Elfe Gage, to end this controverfy, 
 
 H^id but correded you in mercy : 
 
 Whom mother Britain old and wife| 
 
 Sent o'er, the Cornies to challife ^ 
 
 Command obedience on their peril 
 
 Of minifterialwhip and ferule ; ^ 
 
 'And fincc they nefcr muft come of age, 
 
 Govern'4 and tutor'd them by Gage. 
 
 Still more, that this was all their errand;^ 
 
 The army's condu^l makes apparent. ' 
 
 What tho' zt Lexington you can fay 
 
 They kili'd a few they did not fancy, 
 
 At Concord then, with manful popping, 
 
 Drfcharg'd a round the ball to open ? 
 
 Yet when they favv your rebel-rout 
 
 Determin'd ftiU to hold it out ; 
 
 Pid they not Ihow their love to peace, 
 
 And wifli, that difcord llrait might ceafe, 
 
 •' Dcmonftrate^ 
 
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 Pemondrate, and by proofs uncommon. 
 Their orders were to injure no man ? 
 ^or did not cv'ry Ree'Iar run 
 As foon as e'er you nr'd a gun ; 
 Take the iirft fliot you fent them greeting. 
 As meant their fi^nal for retreating ; 
 And fearful if they ftaid for fport, 
 You might hy accident be hurt, 
 Convey tliemfelves with fpeed away 
 Full twenty miles in half a day } 
 Race till their legs were grown fo weary, 
 They'd fcarce fufRcc their weight to carry ? 
 Whence Gage extols, from .ffcn'ral hearfay^ 
 The great * adliv'ty of Lord riercy j 
 Whofe brave example led them on. 
 And fpirited the troops to run 5 
 And now may boad at royal levees 
 A Yanky-chacc worth forty Chevys. 
 Yet you as vile as they were kind, 
 Purfued, like tygers, ftill behind, 
 Fir'd on them at your will, and {hut 
 The town, as tho- you'd ftarve them out } 
 And with f parade prepoft'rous hedg'd 
 Afte£l to hold them there befieg'd ; 
 (Tho' Gage, whom proclamations call 
 Your Gov'rnor and Vice- Admiral, - 
 Whofe pow'r gubernatorial ftill 
 f xtends as far as Bunker's hill ; 
 Whofe admiralty reaches clever, 
 Nearhalf amiie up Myftic river, 
 
 Whofe 
 
 * •« Too much pralfe cannot be given to lord^ercy for 
 his remarkable aAivity thro' the whole day." 
 
 Gage's Mcciunt tf the Lexingttn battle, 
 
 t <* And with a prepofterous parade of military flrrarge* 
 )|nent they affcft co bold the army beficged." 
 '"* ■ Cage's lafi grmifreeUmatitn^ 
 
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 Whofc naval force commands the fcaf. 
 Can run aw^y when'er he pleafe) 
 jScarM troops of Tories into town. 
 And burnt their hay and houfes down^ 
 And menaced Gage, unlefs he'd flee, 
 7o drive him headlong to the fea ; 
 As once, to faithlefs Jews a fign, 
 The dc*el, tu'-n* d hog-reeve, did the fwiac* 
 
 But now your triumphs all are o'er j 
 For fee from Britain's angry fhore 
 "With mighty hods of valour join 
 Her Howe, her Clinton and Burgc/nc» 
 As cpmeis thro' the affrighted ikies 
 J^our baleful ruin, as they rife $ 
 As -zEma with infernal roar 
 In conflagration fweeps the fliorc j 
 Or as * Abijah White when fent 
 Our Marlh6eld friends to reprefcnt| 
 Himfelf ^A'hile dread array involves, 
 Commiffions, piftols, fwords, refolves^ 
 In awful pomp defcending down, 
 bore terror on the fa£lious town : 
 Not with lefs glory and afiright. 
 Parade thefe Gen'rals forth to fight- 
 No more each Reg'lar f Col'nel runt 
 From whizzing beetles, as air-guns, 
 
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 * He vas a reprerencative oF Marshfield, and cmpldyc4 
 to carry cheir famous town-rcfolves co Bofton. He arnic^ 
 himfetf in as lidiculous milicary array, as another HudibraCy 
 |)rctending he was«frai4 he should be robb'd of them. 
 
 f Thistras a fad. Some British officers, foon after Gage's 
 arrival in Boltan, walking on Beacon-Hill after runfec, 
 wcte, aiFri^htid by noifes in the air (fuppofcd to be the 9y- 
 ing of bng<i add beeetev) which they took to be the found of 
 bullets, and Icfc the hill with great precipitation : Concern- 
 ing which they wrote terrible accounts co Bngland of cheir 
 being shot at with air-guns j as appears by one or two let- 
 rers, r?ctr«6ts from whlcliwcre publishci ia the in( " ' 
 p^perf. 
 
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 Thinks hornbugs bullets, or thro' fcaVt 
 IiAuncitoes t^J^cs for mufkcteers ; 
 l^Ior 'fcapes, as tho' you'd gainM allies 
 From Bclzebub's whole holt of flics. 
 No bug their warlike hearts appalls ^ * 
 
 They better know the found of balls. 
 I hear the din of battle bray, 
 The trump of horror marks its way, 
 I fee afar the faclt of cities. 
 The gallows ilrung with Whig-committees ; 
 iTour Moderators triced, like vermin, 
 And gate-pofts graced with heads of Chairmen i 
 Your Gen'ralsi for w.ave-ofFrin^s hanging,' 
 And ladders throng'd with Pnefts harauguin^^J 
 What piU'ries glad the Tories' eyes 
 With patriot-ears for facrifice ! 
 What whipping-poits'your chofen race 
 Admit fucceflive in embrace, 
 While each bears olFhis crimes, alack I* 
 Like Bunyan's pilgrim, on his back ! 
 Where, then, wneii Tories fcarce get cleary 
 Shall Whigs and Con^refles appear ? 
 ^Vhat rocks and mountains fhall you call 
 To wrap you over with their fall, 
 And fave your heads in thefe fail weathers, ■ ^ 
 From fire and fword, and tar and feathers ! 
 For lo, with Britiih troops tarbright, 
 Again our Nefbitt heaves in fight \ 
 He comes, he comes, your lines to (lormj- 
 And rigg your troops in uniform t 
 To meet fuch Heroes, will ye brag. 
 With fury arm*d, and feather-bag ; 
 Who wield their millile pitch and tar, 
 "With engines new in British war ? 
 , Lo, where our mighty navy brings 
 i>cftru6tion on her canvas-wings, 
 
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 While thro* tlic deeps her potent thunder . 
 Shall found th* alarm to rob and pUinder I 
 /Vs Phoebus firft, fo Homer fpeaks. 
 When he march'd out t* attack the Greeks, 
 'Gainll mules fent forth his arrows fatal^ 
 And flew th' auxiliaries, their cattle ; 
 $0 where our (tups fliall ftretch the keel, 
 "^Vhat conquerM oxen fliall they (teal I 
 What heroes rifing from the deep 
 Inyade your marfhaU'd hofts of ftiecp ! 
 Difperfe whole troops of horfe, and preffihg 
 Make cows furrender at difcretion ; 
 Attack your hens, like Alexanders, 
 And reg*ment8 rout of geefe and ganders ;' 
 Or where united arms confibine 
 Jiead captive many a herd of fwine [ 
 Then rufh in dreadful fury down 
 To fire on cv'ry feaport town ; 
 Bifplay their glory and their wits, 
 Fright unarmM children into fits, 
 Andftoiitly fronfi th' unequal fray, 
 Make many a woman run away ! 
 And can ye doubt whene'er we pleafe 
 Our chiefs fliall boaft fuch deeds as thefe ? 
 Have we not chiefs tranfcending far. 
 The old fam*d thunderbolts of luar ; 
 Beyond the brave romantic fighters, 
 StiWdfwords of death by novel-writers ? 
 Nor in romancing asjes e*cr rofe 
 So terrible a tier of heroes. , 
 From Gage, what flafties fright the waves f 
 How loud a blunderbufs is Graves ! 
 How Newport dreads the bluftring fallies, 
 That thunder from our popgun, Wallace,' 
 While noife in formidable llrains 
 Spouta from his thimblc-full of brains P 
 

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 1 fee you fink with aw*d furprize ! 
 
 i fee our Tory-brethren rife ! 
 
 And as the fe^l'ries Sandemanian, 
 
 Our friends defcribe their wiftiM Millennium 
 
 Tell how the world in ev'ry region 
 
 At once fhall own their true religion ; • . 
 
 For heav'n with plagues of awful dread 
 
 Shall knock all heretics o' tV head ; 
 
 Arid then their church, the meek in fpirit^ 
 
 The earthj as promised, ihall inherit. 
 
 From the dead wicked, as heirs male, 
 
 And next remainder-men in tail : 
 
 ouch ruin fhall the Whigs opprefs ? 
 
 Such fpoils our Tory friends (hall blefs ! 
 
 "While Confifcation at command 
 
 Shall ftalk in horror thro' the land, " 
 
 Shall give your Whig-eftates away^ 
 
 And call our brethren into play. 
 
 And can ye doubt or fcruple more, 
 Thefe things are near you at the door ? 
 Behold ! for the* to reafning blind, 
 Signs of the times ye fure might mind, ^ 
 And view impending fate a^ j)rain 
 As ye*d foretell a fhow'r of rain. 
 , Hath not heav'n warn*d you what muft enfu^^ 
 And Providence declar*d againft you } 
 Hung forth its dire portents of war. 
 By * figns and beac^ons in the air ; 
 Alarm*d old women all around 
 By fearful noifcs under ground ; 
 While earth for many dozen leagues 
 Groan'd with her difmal load of Whigs ? 
 
 F Was . 
 
 * Such (lories of prodigies vere at that time ih duftrioult/ 
 tropagated by the f oi^-party in various parts of KeWofini^^ 
 laiia, CO terrify and incimidaec the fupeiftitjous* 
 
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 Was there a meteor far and wide 
 
 But mufterM on the Tory-fide ? 
 
 A (lar malign that has not bent 
 
 Its afpefts ror the Parliament, 
 
 F*6reDoding your defeat and mifery ; 
 
 As once they fought againft old Sifera ? 
 
 Was there a cloud that fpread the lldes. 
 
 But bore our armies of allies ? 
 
 While dreadful hoflsof fire flood forth 
 
 'Mid baleful glimoi'rings from the North ; 
 
 Which plainly (hows which part they join'dy 
 
 For North^s the minifter, ye mind ; 
 
 Whence oft your quibblers in gazettes 
 
 On Northern blafls have ft rain' d their wits \ 
 
 And think ye not the clouds know how 
 
 To make the pun as well as you ? 
 
 Did there arife an apparition, 
 
 But grinn'd forth ruin to fcditicn ? 
 
 A death-watch, but has join'd our lengucs, 
 
 And clickM deftrud:ion to the Whi^s ? 
 
 Heard ye not, when the wind was fair. 
 
 At night our or'tors in the air. 
 
 That, loud as admiralty-libel, 
 
 Read awful chapters from the bible. 
 
 And death and deviltry denounced. 
 
 And told you how youM foon be trounc'd P' 
 
 I fee to join our conquering fide 
 
 Heav*n, earth and hell at once allied I 
 
 See from your overthrow and end 
 
 The Tories paradife afcend v 
 
 Like that new world that claims its ftation 
 
 Beyond the final conflagration ! 
 
 I fee the day that lots your fhare 
 
 In utter daiknefs and defpair; 
 
 The day of joy, when North, our Lord, 
 
 His faithful fav 'rites fhall reward ! 
 

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 f>!o Tory tken Ihall fet before him 
 
 ijrnall wifh of 'Squire, or Juftice Quorum 5 
 
 But *fore his unmiftaken eyes 
 
 fSee Lordfliips, poits and penHons rife. 
 
 Awake to gladnefs th^n, ye Tories, 
 
 Th* unbounded profpe<^ lies before us ? 
 
 The pow*r difplay'd in Gage's banners 
 
 Shall cut American lands to manors, 
 
 And o'er our happy conquered ground 
 
 Difpenfe eftates and titles round. 
 
 iiehold, the world (hall ftare at new fetts 
 
 Of home-made * earls in Maflachufetts ; 
 
 Admire, array'd in ducal taflels, 
 
 Your Ol'vers, Hutchinfous and Vaflals j 
 
 Sec join'd in miniilerial work 
 
 His grace of Albany and York I 
 
 What Lordfliips from each carv'd eftate. 
 
 On our New-York AiTembly wait ! 
 
 What titled f Jauncys, Gales and Billops ; 
 
 Lord Brufti, Lord Wilkins and Lord Philips ! 
 
 In wide-fleev'd pomp of godly ^uife, 
 
 What folemn rows of biinops rife ! 
 
 Aloft a cardinal's hat is fpread 
 
 O'er punltcr § Cooper^s rev'rend head ! ] 
 
 In Vardell, that poetic zealot, 
 
 I'view a lawn-bedizen'd prelate I 
 
 While mitres fgill, as 'tis their duty, 
 
 On heads of Chandler and Auchmuty f 
 
 Knights, vifcounts, barons (hall ye meet. 
 
 As thick as pavements in the ilreet ! 
 
 Ev'n 
 
 * See Hutchinfon'sand Oliver's letters. 
 
 f Msmbers of the minifterial Majority in the Nev-York 
 aflembly; Wilkins a noted writer* 
 
 J§ Prefident Cooper is a notorious punfter : Vardell, au- 
 rhbr of fome poetic4l fatires on the Tons of liberty in New- 
 York, and royal profeflor in King's college j Chandler an4 
 Auchmuty, High-church and Tory-writers of tbc Clctical 
 iurdcr. 
 
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 fv*n I perhaps, hcav'n fpeed my claiai| 
 hall fix a Sir before my name. 
 For titles all our foreheads ache ; 
 For what bled changes can they make ! 
 Place rev'rencc, grace and excellence 
 Where neither claim'd the leaft pretence % 
 Transform by {patent's magic words 
 Men, like ft devils, into Lords ; 
 Whence commoners to peers tranflated 
 Are juftly faid to be creaUd ! 
 Now where commiffioners ye faw 
 Shall boards of nobles deal you law ! 
 Long-rob'd comptrollers judge your rightSj 
 And tide-waiters ftart up in knights ! 
 While Whigs fubdued in llavifli awe. 
 Our wood riiall hew, our water draw,' 
 And blefs that mildnefs, when paft hope. 
 Which fav*d their neeks from noofe of ropc» 
 For as to j^ain alTiftance we . 
 Defign their Negroes to fet free ; 
 For Whigs, when we enough fhall bang 'em, 
 Perhaps 'tis better not to hang 'em ; 
 Except their chiefs •, the vulgar knaves 
 Will do more good preferv'd for Haves." 
 
 ** 'Tis well, Honorius cried, your fchcme] 
 Has painted out a pretty dream. ' - 
 We can't confute your fecond fight j 
 We fhall be flaves and you a knight : 
 Thefe things muft come : but I divine 
 They'll come not in your day,- or mine. 
 But oh, my friends, my brethren, hear, 
 And turn for once th* attentive ear. 
 Ye fee how prompt to aid our woes, 
 *1 he tender mercies of our foes ; 
 Ye fee with what unvaried rancour 
 §tili for our blood their minions hanker, 
 
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 Nor aught can fate their mad ambition^ 
 From us, but death, or worfe, fubmiflion^ 
 Shall thefe then riot in our fpoil, 
 Reap the glad harved of our toil» 
 Rife from their country's ruin proud, 
 And roll their chariot wheels in blood ? 
 And can ye fleep while high outfpread 
 Hangs defolation o^er your head r 
 See Gage with inaufpicious flar 
 Has oped the gates of civil war ; 
 When ftreams of gore from freemen flain| 
 Encrimfon'd Concord's fatal plain ; 
 Whofc warning voice with awful found , 
 Still ories, like Abel's from the ground. 
 And heav'n, attentive to its call, 
 Shall doom the proud oppreflbr's fall. 
 Rife then, ere ruin fwift furprize. 
 To vi£iory, to vengeance rife ! 
 Hark, how the didant din alarms ! 
 The echoing trumpet breathes, to arms j 
 From provinces remote, afar, 
 The fons of glory rouze to war ; 
 ?Tis freedom cplls; th* enraptur'd found 
 The Apalachiati hiUs rebound ; 
 The Georgian fhores her voice (hall hear. 
 And ftart from lethargies of fear. 
 From the parch'd zone, with glowing ray« 
 Where pours the fun intenfer day, 
 To ihores where icy waters roll, ' 
 And tremble to the dufky pole, 
 Infpir'd by freedom's heav'nly charms. 
 United nations wake to arms. 
 The ftar of con^ueft lights their way, 
 And guides their vengeance on cheir prey- 
 Yes, tho' tyrannic force oppofe, 
 Still fball they triumph o'er their foes, 
 
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 Till heav*n the happy land (hall blcfs. 
 With fafcty, liberty and peace. 
 
 And ye whof&fouls of daftard mould 
 Start at the brav'ry of the bold ; 
 To love your country who pretend. 
 Yet want allfpirit to defend ; 
 Who feel your tancies fo prolific, 
 Engend'rin^ vifionM whims terrific, 
 O'er-run with horrors of coercion, 
 Fire, blood and thunder in reverfion, 
 King's ilandards, pill'ries, confifcations. , 
 And Gage's fcarecrow proclamations. 
 With all the trumpery of fear ;• 
 Hear bullets whizzing in your rear ; 
 Who fcarce could rouze, if caught in fray, 
 Prefence of mind to run away ; 
 See nought but halters rife to view 
 In all your dreams (and dreams are true) 
 And while thefe phantoms haunt your brains^ 
 Bow down the willing neck to chains ; 
 Heav'ns ! are ye fons of fires fo great. 
 Immortal in the fields of fate, 
 Who braVd all deaths by land or fea. 
 Who bled, who conquer'd to be free ! 
 Hence, coward fouls, the worft difgrace 
 Of our forefathers^ valiant race ; 
 Hie hoijieward from the glorious field ; 
 There turn the wheel, the diftaff wield ; 
 AOi what ye are, nor dare to (lain 
 The warrior's arms with touch profane : ^ 
 There beg your more heroic wives 
 To guard your children and your lives ; 
 Beneath their aprons find a fcreen, * 
 Nor dare to mingle more with men." 
 
 As thus hefaid, the Tories' anger 
 Could now reftiain itfelf no longer, 
 
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 Who tried before by many a freak, or 
 Infulting noifc, to Hop the fpeaker ; 
 Swung th* unoilM hinge of each pew-door ^ 
 Their feet kept fliuffling on the floor j 
 Made their difapprobation known 
 *By many a murmu*'^ .am and groan. 
 That to hia fpeech fupplied the place 
 Of counterpart in thorough-bafe : 
 As bag-pipes, while the tune they breathe^ 
 Still drone and grumble underneath *, 
 Or as the fam*d Demoilhenes 
 Harangued the rumbling of the feas. 
 Held forth with eloquence full grave 
 To audience loud of wind and wave ^ 
 And had a ftiller congregation 
 "Irhdn Tories are to hear th* oration. 
 But now the (lorm grew high and louder 
 As nearer thundrings of a cloud are, ^ 
 And ev'ry foul with heart and voice 
 Supplied his quota of the noife ; 
 Each liftningcar was fet on torture 
 Each Tory beirwing put, to order ; 
 And fome, with tongue not low or weak. 
 Were clamoring faft, for leave to fpeak ; 
 The moderator, with great violence, 
 The cuChion thiimpM with " Silence, filence j 
 The conftable to ev'ry prater 
 Bawl'd out, " Pray hear the moderator j" 
 SomecT^ll'd the vote, and fome in turn 
 Were fareaminghigh, " Adjourn, adjourn ;" 
 fjot chaos heard fuchjars andclafhes 
 When all the el'ments fought for places. 
 Each bluds^eon foon for blows was tim'd ; 
 Each fill ftood ready cock'd andprim'd j 
 -The ftorm each moment louder grew 5 
 His fword the great M*Fiiigal drew , 
 
 Prepar''d 
 
PreparM in either cH an ce to (hare^ > 
 
 To keep the peace, or aid the war. 
 
 Nor lacVd they each poetic, being, 
 
 Whom bards alone are (killM jn feeing 5 
 
 Plum*d Vi£lory ftood perch'd oil high. 
 
 Upon the pulpit-canopy. 
 
 To join, as isnercdftom tried. 
 
 Like Indians, on the ftrongeft fide ; 
 
 The Deftinies with (hears arid diilafFi 
 
 Drew near their threads of life to twift cffF ; 
 
 The Furies *gan to feall on blows. 
 
 And broken neads or bloody nofe ; 
 
 When on a fudden from without 
 
 Arofc a loud terrific (hout 5 
 
 And fl:rait the people all at once heard 
 
 Of tongues an univerfal concert ^ ■ 
 
 Like -^fop's times, as fable runs. 
 
 When ev*ry creature talkM at once. 
 
 Or like the variegated gabble 
 
 That craz'd the Carpenters of Babel; 
 
 Each party foon forgot the quarrel. 
 
 And let the other go on parole ; • ' 
 
 Eager to know what fearful matter 
 
 Had conjur'd up fuch gen'ral clatter ; 
 
 And left the chUrch in thin array. 
 
 As tho' it had been le£iu re-day. 
 
 Our 'Squire M*Fingal ft railway beckoned 
 
 The conftable to ffand his fecond. 
 
 And fallied forth with afpeft fierce 
 
 The croud aflembied to difperfe. 
 
 The moderator out of view 
 
 Beneath a bench had lain perdue 5 
 
 Peep'd up his head to view the fray. 
 
 Beheld the wranglers run away, 
 
 And left alone with folemn face, 
 
 Adjourn'd them without time or place. 
 
 END OF CANTO SBcoNDf- 
 

 M * f IN G ALt 
 
 CANTO T H IR D, 
 
 OR 
 
 Th* LIBERTY POLE* 
 
 ■^TOW armM With minifterial ire, 
 xN Fierce fallied forth our loyal 'Squire^ 
 And on his (Iriding fteps attends, 
 Jils defp'rate dan of Tory friends } 
 Whetifuddehmethisattjgry eyci ., ' ' ,' 
 A pole, afc'ending.thro'the {ky» . , ,. ; . 
 Which niiiti'ifous throngs of Whiggifli ract 
 'W'ere riifing in the market-place j 
 Not higher. fchooUboys kites afpire. 
 Or royal maft or country fpire, '• * ; . 
 
 Like fpeara at Brbbdignagian tilting^ 
 Or Satan's walking-ftafF in Milton j 
 ^nd on. i^9 top„the. flag unfurlM, . 
 Waved triumph o'er the ^proft rate world j 
 Infcrihed with inconfiftent types' 
 Of liberty and thirteefi ftripcs. 
 peneath, the croud without delays 
 The dedicatioh-ritfts eflay, 
 And gladly pay in antient faffiion^ 
 The ceremonies of libation ; 
 tVhile briikly to each patriot lip 
 Walks eager round th* infjpiring ftip : . , ^ 
 
 Q Delicious 
 
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 Delicious draught, whofe pow'rs inherit^ 
 
 Thequinteflence of public fpirit ! 
 
 Which whofo ta(le8,perceive8 his miild j 
 
 To nobler politics refined, 
 
 Or rouzM tor martial controvcrfy, 
 
 As from transforming cups of Circe ; 
 
 Or warniM with Homer's neftar'd liquor, " 
 
 That fill'd the veins of gods with ichor. 
 
 At hand for new fupplies in ftore. 
 
 The tavern opes its friendly door, 
 
 Whence to and fro the waiters run, 
 
 Like bucket-men at fires in town. 
 
 Then with three ihouts that tore the flcy, 
 
 'Tis confecrate to Liberty ^ 
 
 To guard it from th* attacks of Tories, 
 
 A grand committee cull'd of four is. 
 
 Who foremoft on the patriot fpot, 
 
 Had brought the flip and paid the fliot.' 
 
 By this, M'Fingal with his train, 
 Advanced upon th* adjacent plain, 
 0nd fierce witji loyal rage poflefs'd, 
 Pour'd forth the zeal, that fired his breafl. 
 •* What madbrain'd rebel gave commifilon. 
 To raife this Maypole of ftdition I 
 Like Babel rcar'd by bawL'ng throngs. 
 With like confufion too of ♦ongues, 
 To point at heav'n and fummf>n down. 
 The thunders of the Britifli crown ? 
 Say will this paltry pole fecure 
 Tour forfeit heads from Gage's pow'r ? 
 Attacked by heroes brave and crafty, 
 Is this to ftand your ark of fafety ? 
 Or driven by Scottifh laird and laddie, 
 Think ye to reft beneath its fhadow ? 
 When bombs, like fiery ferpents, fly 
 And b»U3 move hiiTing thro' the iky, . 
 
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 Will this vile pole, devote to freedom, 
 
 Save like the Jewiih pole in Edom, 
 
 Or like the brazen fnake of Mofes, 
 
 Cure yourcrackt fkulls and batterM nofcs ? 
 
 Ye dupes to ev'ry fadious rogue, 
 
 Gr tavernprating demagogue, 
 
 Whofe tongue but rings, with found more full. 
 
 On th' empty drumhead of his ikull, 
 
 Behold you kno^v not what noify fools 
 
 Ufe you, worfe fimpletons, for tools ? 
 
 For Liberty in your own by-fenfe 
 
 Is but for crimes a patent licence ; 
 
 To break of law th' Egyptian yoke, 
 
 And throw the world in common ilock, 
 
 Reduce all grievances and ills 
 
 To Magna Charta of ydur wills, 
 
 Eftablim cheats and frauds and nonfenfe^ 
 
 Fram'd by the model of you- confcience. 
 
 Cry juftice down, as out of failiion 
 
 And -fix its fcale of depreciation, 
 
 Dtfy all creditors to trouble ye, 
 
 Ann pafs new years of Jewifh jubilee ^ 
 
 Drive judges out, like Aa-ron*s calves, 
 
 Byjurifdiftions of white ftavcs. 
 
 And make the bar and bench and (leeple. 
 
 Submit t' our fov*reign Lord, the l^coplc j 
 
 AflTure each knave his whole aflets. 
 
 By general amnefty of debts ; 
 
 By plunder rife to pow'r and glory. 
 
 And brand all property as tory ; 
 
 Expofe all wares to lawful feizures 
 
 Of mobbers and monopolizers ; 
 
 Break heads and windows and the peace. 
 
 For your own int*reft and increafe ; 
 
 Difpute and pray and fight and groan, 
 
 ^or public good, and mean your own *, 
 
Prevent the laws, by fierce attacksj 
 From quitting fcores upon your backt. 
 Jjay yQur old dread, the gallows, low. 
 And feize the (locks your antietit {06 % 
 And turn them, as convenient engines 
 To wreak your patriotic vengeance ; 
 While all, your claims who underftand| 
 Confefs they're in the owner's hand : 
 And when by clamours and confufions. 
 Your freedom*8 grown a public nuifance^ 
 Cry, Liberty, with powerful yearning. 
 As he does, nre, whofe houfe is burning, 
 Tho* he already has much mpre, 
 Th an he can find occafion for. 
 "While ev*ry dunce, that turns the plains 
 Tbo* banl^rupt in eftate and brains. 
 By this new light transformed to traitor, 
 Forfakes his plow to turn dictator, 
 Starts an haranguing chief of Whigs, 
 And drags you by the ears, like pigs. 
 AU blufter arm*d with factious licence. 
 Transformed at once to politicians ; 
 Each ieather-apron'd clown grown wife, 
 Prefcnts his forward face t- advife, 
 An I tatter'd legiflators meet 
 From ev*ry workfliop thro* the ftrect j 
 His goofe the tailor finds new ufe in. 
 To patch and turn the conftitution ; 
 The blackfmith comes with fledge and gratc^ 
 To ironbind the wheels of ftate ; 
 The quack forbears his patient's foufe, 
 To purge the Council and the Houfe, 
 The tinker quits his Molds and doxies. 
 To caft aflembly-men at proxies. 
 From dunghills deep of fame hue, 
 "^ouf dirtbred patriots fprin^ to view. 
 
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 T?o wealth and pow'r and penfion nfc, ^ 
 iiike new-wing'd maggots changM to niC8 | 
 And fluttring round in proud parade^ 
 Strut in the robe, or gay cockade. 
 See * Arnold quits for ways more certain| 
 His bankrupt perj'ries for his fo-rtunc. 
 Brews run^ no longer in his ftore. 
 Jockey and.ikipper now no more 5 
 forfakes his warehoufes and docks. 
 And writs of flander for the pox, 
 And purgM by patriotifm from fliame, 
 prows Qen'ral of the foremoil name. 
 
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 For in this ferment of the ftream. 
 
 The dregs have workM up to the brim. 
 
 And by the rule of topfyturvys, 
 
 The ileum (lands fwelling on the furface* 
 
 "SfouVe causM your pyramid t* afcend 
 
 And fet it on ttie little end \ 
 
 Like Hudibras, your empire's made, 
 
 Whofe crupper had o'ertppM his head ; 
 
 YouVe pulh'd and turnM the whole world up-. 
 
 Side down 4nd got yourfelves artop : 
 
 While 
 
 * ArnoId^s perjuries a( the time of his pretended bank- 
 ruptcy, which vas the firft rife of his fortune, and his curi- 
 ous lav iuit againft a brother-skipper, who had charged 
 bim wi(:h having caught the abovementioneddifeafe, bjr his 
 connexion with a f ertainAfri^an princcfs in the Veil-Indies^ 
 with its humorous iflue, are matters, not I believe fo gene- 
 ralty known, as the other cir^rumftances of his | ublic and 
 private chara^er. 
 
 t M^Fingal having here infened the names and cbarafieni 
 pfTeverai great men, whom the public have not yet fullf 
 detefted, it is thought proper to omit fiiadif p4r;igraplif of 
 )^s f|p€ccb| in (he pref^nt 9diti9n« 
 
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 While all tbc great ones of your ftatc. 
 
 Are crufti'd beneath the pop'lar weighty 
 
 Nor can you boaft this prefent hour, 
 
 The fhadow of the form of pow'r. 
 
 tor what's your Congrefs, or its end I 
 
 A power t* advife and recommend ; 
 
 To call for troops, adjud your quotas. 
 
 And yet no foul is bound to notice ; 
 
 To pawn your faith to th' utmbft limit. 
 
 But cannot bind you to redeem it, 
 
 And when in want no more in them lies. 
 
 Than begging of your State- Aflemblies ^ 
 
 Can utter oracles of dread. 
 
 Like friar Bacon's brazen head. 
 
 But (hould a faction e'er difpute 'em, 
 
 Has ne*er an arm to execute *em. 
 
 As tho' you chofe fupreme dictators, 
 
 And put them under confervators ; 
 
 Yoi;iVe but purfued the felffame way. 
 
 With Shakefpeare*s Trinclo in the play, 
 
 •* You (hall be viceroys here, 'tis true. 
 
 But we'll be viceroys over you." 
 
 What wild confufion hence muftenfue, 
 
 The' comnion danger yet cements you j 
 
 So feme wrecked veflel, all in fhatters. 
 
 Is held up by furrounding waters. 
 
 But ftranded, when the preflure ceafes. 
 
 Falls by its rottcnnefs to pieces. 
 
 And fall it mud — if wars were ended. 
 
 You'll ne'er have fenfe enough to mend it : 
 
 But creeping on with low intrigues 
 
 Like vermin of an hundred legs, 
 
 Will find as fhort a life aflign'd. 
 
 As all things elfe of reptile kind. 
 
 Your Commonwealth 6 a common harlot, 
 
 The jiropcrty of cv'ry varlct. 
 
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t'^hich now Jn tafte and full employ^ 
 All forts admire, as all enjoy 5 
 But foon a batter*d ftrumpet grown, 
 You'll curfe and drum her out of town. 
 Such is the government you chofe. 
 For this you bade the world be foes. 
 For this 10 mark'd for dilTolution, 
 You fcorn the Britiih conilitution, 
 That conftitution, form'd by fages. 
 The wonder of all modern ages : 
 Which owns no failure in reality, 
 Except corruption and venality ; 
 And only proves the adage juft, 
 That beil things fpoilM corrupt to worft. 
 So man fupreme in mortal ftation, ' 
 And mighty lord of this creation. 
 When once his corfe is dead as herring, 
 Becomes the moll ofFenfive carrion, . 
 And fooner breeds the plague, 'tis found. 
 Than all beads rotting 'hove the ground. 
 -^c.t for this government, to difmay us, 
 ^ ouVe call'd up anarchy from chaos, 
 vv ith all the followers of her fchool, 
 tJproar and rage and wild mifrule ; 
 For whom this rout of Whigs diftra^fed 
 And ravings dire of ev'rycrack'd head ; 
 Thefe new-caft legillative engines 
 Of county-muftcrs and conventions, 
 Committcesvileofcorrefponder.ee, 
 And mobs, whofe tricks have almoll undone 's v 
 While reafon fails to check your courfe. 
 And loyalty's kickM out of doors, 
 And folly, like inviting landlord, 
 Hoifts on your poles her royal ftandard. 
 While the king's friends in doleful dumps. 
 Have wora their courage to the flumps, 
 
 And 
 
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 Arid Icavjngf George in fad cUfaftdr, 
 
 Mod finfully deny their mafter. 
 
 What furies ra^ed when you in fea. 
 
 In (hape of Indians drown'd the tea. 
 
 When your gay fparks, fatigued to watch H^ 
 
 Aflumed the moggifon and hatchet^ 
 
 With wampemM blankets hid their laces, 
 
 And like th«ir fweethearts> primed their faees i 
 
 While not a redcoat dar*d oppofe. 
 
 And fcarce a Tory (how'd his nofe, 
 
 While Hutchinfon for fure retreat^ 
 
 Manouvred to his country feat, 
 
 And thence affrighted in the fuds, 
 
 Stole off bareheaded thro' the woods ! 
 
 Havg you not roused your mobs to join^ 
 
 And make Mandamus^mcn rcfign, 
 
 CallM forth each duffii-drefs'd curmudgfcort^ 
 
 With dirty trowfers and white bludgeon^ 
 
 l^'orcM all our Councils thro' the land, 
 
 To yield their necks to your command 5 
 
 While palenefs marks their late difgraccs 
 
 Thro' all their rueful length of faces ? 
 
 Have you not caufed as woful work^ 
 
 In loyal citr of New- York, 
 
 When all the rabble well cockadcd^ 
 
 In triumph thro* the ftreets paraded ; 
 
 And moob'd theTorieSj feared their fpoufc'rf^ 
 
 And ranfack'd all the cuftom-houfes, 
 
 Made fuch a tumult, b^ufter, jarring,^ 
 
 That mid. the clafli of tempefts warring, 
 
 Smith's weathercock with veers forlorn, 
 
 Could hardly tell which way to turn j 
 
 Burnt effigies of th' higher powers, 
 
 Contriv'd in planetary hours. 
 
 As witches with clay-images, 
 
 Deftroy or torture whom they pleafc j 
 
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 Till filled with rage, th* ungrateful cJub 
 Spared not your bell friend, Belzebub, 
 P'erlookM his favours and forgot 
 The rev'rerice due his cloven toot. 
 And in the felffame furnace frying, 
 Burii'd him and North and Bute and Tryon } 
 Did you not in as vile and (hallow way. 
 Fright our poor Philadelphian, Galloway, 
 Your Congrefs when the daring ribald 
 Belied, berated and befcribbled r 
 What rop«s Aiid halters did you fend, 
 Terrific emblems of his end, 
 Till lead he'd hang in more than effigy. 
 Fled in a fog the trernbling refugee ? 
 Now rrfing in progr<;(Iion fatal, 
 JJ^ve you not venturM to give battle ? 
 When treafon chaced our heroes troubled^ 
 With rully gun and leathern doublet, r 
 
 Turn*d all ftoncwalls and groves and bufliesi 
 To batteries arm'd with bluhderbufles, '•;•> 
 
 And, with deep wounds that fate portend, 
 Gaul'd many a reg*lar*s latter end. 
 Drove them to Boilon, as in jail. 
 Confined without mainprize or bail. 
 Were not thefe deeds enough betimes^ 
 To heap the meafure of your crimes. 
 But in this loyal town and dwelling. 
 You raife thefe enfigns of rebellion ? 
 *Tis done 5 fair Mercy fliuts her door ; 
 And Vengeance now (hall flcep no more ; 
 Rife then, -my friends, in terror rife, 
 And wipe this fcandal from the (kies ! 
 You'll fee their Dagon, tho* well jointed. 
 Will fiak before the J.ord's anoinfcd. 
 And like old Jcficho's proud wall, , * 
 Befure our ram'j horns proflratc fall." 
 
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 t^hisfaid, our 'Squire, yet wndifmay^d,' 
 CallM forth the ConftaWc to aid. 
 And hade him ret^d in. rearer (lation. 
 The riot-a£i: and proclamation f 
 tVbo now advancinff tow'rd the rin?, 
 Be ran, ** Our fov'relcrn Lord the King**-*- 
 When thoufand clamorous rongiies h€ ncar«, 
 And clubs and ftones affail his ears ^ 
 To fiy was vain, tofight was idle, 
 By foes enconipafs'd in the middle } 
 In ftratagem his aid he fotind, 
 And fell right craftily to groihid ; 
 fhen crept to feek an hiding place, 
 •Twas all he could, beneath a bract ; 
 Where foon the conq'ring crew efpied hirti,' 
 And where he lurk'd^ they caught and tied oitti:^ 
 
 At once with refolutipil fata V 
 Both Whigs and Ivories ruftiM to battle j 
 Ihftead of weapons, either band 
 Seiz'd on fuch arms, as came tb hand. 
 And as fam*d * Ovid paitits th' advcnturcaf 
 Of wrangliiig Lapithac and Centaurs, 
 Who at their feaft, by Bacchus.led, 
 Threw bottles at each other's head. 
 And thefe arms failing in their fcuffles, 
 Attack*d with handiroris, tbrigs and Novels j 
 So clubs and billets, ftaves and (lones 
 Met fierce, encountering ev'ry fconce. 
 And cover'd o'er with knobs and pains 
 Each void receptacle for brairis ; 
 Their clamours rend'the hills around,- 
 And earth rebellows with the found ^ 
 yj^nd many a groan increased the din 
 From broken nofc and batter'd fhin. 
 
 f Ovid's Mctiiaiorplbfes, Book Z2« 
 
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 WFinpal rifing atthe word, 
 
 Drew forth his old militia fword ; 
 
 Thrice cried, **Kin^ Qeorge," as crll In ^i^fcft 
 
 Romancing heroes did their miflrefs, 
 
 And brandiihing the blade in air, 
 
 Struck terror thro' th* oppofing war. 
 
 The Whigs, unfafe within the wind 
 
 Of fuch comnjoticn ihrunk behind. 
 
 With whlrlinp fteel around addiefs'd. 
 
 Fierce thro* their thickeft throng he prcfs'd. 
 
 iWho roIFd on cither iide in arch, 
 *ike Red-fea waves in Ifrael's march) 
 And like a meteor ruihing through, 
 Struck on the^ p ' a vengeful blov- 
 Around, the »rhig of clubs and lU.icS 
 DifchargM whole vollies in platoons, | 
 
 That o'er in whittling terror flf, 
 Put not a foe dares venture njgli. 
 And now perhaps with conqueftcrownM, 
 Our 'Squire haci fellM theirpole to ground ^ 
 Had not feme Pow*r, a Whig at heart, 
 Defcended down and took their part ; 
 (Whether 'twere Pallas, Mars or Iris, 
 'Tis fcarce worth wtjile to make enquiries) 
 Who at the nick of time alarming, 
 Aflumed the graver form of Chairman ; 
 Addrefs'd a Whig, in ev'ry fcene 
 Th« ftouteft wreltler on the green. 
 And pointed where the fpade was found^ 
 Late ufed to fix their pole in ground. 
 And urg'd with equal arms and might 
 To dare our 'Scj^uire Jo fingle fight.* 
 
 The 
 
 ♦ The learned reader will readily obferve the alluft ins iii 
 this fcene Co the iingle combats of P^iris and Mencluus ift 
 tf otncr, ^neas and Twnus in Tirfiii| «n4 Mi«b4c4 4«4 
 
The Whig thu9 arm'd, untaught to yifW| 
 ^ilvancM tremendous to the field ; 
 No'r did M*Fingal ihun t\ti^ foe, 
 But ftood to brave the defp'ratc blow ; 
 While all th^ party g«z*d fufpended. 
 To fee the deadly combat ended. 
 And Jove in equal balance vi^eigh'd 
 The Iword againft the brandifh'd fpade^ 
 He wpighM 5 but lighter than a dream, 
 The fNvord flew up and kick'd the beam. 
 Our *Squire on tiptoe rjfing fair, 
 Lilts hip-h i noble Itroke in air, 
 Which fiung'not, but like dreadful engine^ 
 Defcend<fd on the foe in vengeance, 
 But ah, in danger with diftionor 
 The fword p"erfidious fails its owner ; 
 Thai fword, which oft had ftood its grounj} 
 By huge trainbands encompafsM round. 
 Or on the bench, with blade right loyal, 
 Had Won the day at many a trial, 
 Of ftones and clubs had brav*d th* alarms^ 
 fJhrunk from thefe new Vulcanian arms. 
 The fpa;le fo tempered from the fledge. 
 Nor keen nor folid harm*d its edge, 
 Now met it froni his arm of might 
 Defcending with fteep force to fmite 5 
 The blade fnapp'd fhort-^-and from his han^ 
 "With ruft ?rBbrown*d tke glitt'ring fand. 
 JSwift tui^'d M'Fingal at the view. 
 And caliM for aid th' attendant crew, 
 In vain 5 the Tories all had run, 
 Whqp fcarce the fight was well b«gun | 
 Their fetting wig? lie faw decreasM, 
 Fajr in th* horizon tow'rd the weft. 
 Amaz*d he view'd the Ihameful fight, 
 ^ttd faw no refuge but in flight : 
 
 But 
 
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 But age unwcildy cbcckM his pace, 
 
 Tho* fear had wing'd his flying ttllz ( 
 
 For not a trifling prize at ftake \ 
 
 No lefs than great M^Fingal's back. 
 
 With legs and arnis he work'd his courfe, 
 
 Like rider that outgoes his horfe, 
 
 And laboured hard to get away, as 
 
 Old Satan • itruggling on thro' chaos : 
 
 Till looking i3ack he fpied in rear 
 
 The fpade-<irm*d chief advanc'd too near. 
 
 Then (lopp'd and feizM a (lone that lay. 
 
 An antient land-mark near the way ; 
 
 Nor Ihall we, as old Bards have done. 
 
 Affirm it weigh'd an hundred ton ; 
 
 But fuch a (lone as at a iliift 
 
 A modern might fuffice to lift. 
 
 Since men, to credit their enigmas, ^ 
 
 Are dwindled down to dwarfs and pigmies, 
 
 And giants exiled with their cronies. 
 
 To Brobdingnags and Patagonias. 
 
 But while our hero turn*d him round. 
 
 And ftoop'd to raife it f ^m the ground. 
 
 The deadly fpade difcha.g'd a blow 
 
 Tremendous on his reaf below : 
 
 His bent knee failM, and void of flrength, 
 
 Stretch'd on the ground his manly length j 
 
 Like antient oak o'erturn'd he lay. 
 
 Or tow'rs to tempefts fall'n a prey. 
 
 And more things elfe — but all men know 'em^ 
 
 If flightly vers'd in Epic Poem. 
 
 At once the crew, at this fad crifis, 
 
 fall on and bind him ere he rifes, 
 
 And with loud (bouts and joyful foul 
 
 pon(JuCt him pris'ner to the polc.j 
 
 * When 
 
 * In MilcQiii 
 
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 Wlien now the Mob in lucky lif ur« 
 Harf got their cn'mies in tlueir pow'r, 
 Thejr firit proceed by wife command 
 To take the conftable in hand. 
 Then from the pole's fublimeft top, 
 Th»y fpecded to let down the rope, 
 At once its other end in hade bind, 
 And make i^ faft upon his waiflband. 
 Till like the earth, as (tretch'd on tentef^ 
 H^ hung felf-balancM on his ccnt(*r. 
 Then upwards all hands hoiflin^ fail. 
 They fwun)f him, like a kegfof ale. 
 Till to the pinnacle fo fair, 
 He rofe like meteor in the air. 
 As • Socrates of old at firft did 
 To aid philofophy get hoifted. 
 And found his thoughts flow ftran^cly clcif. 
 Gwungr in a bafket in mid air ; 
 Our culprit thus in purer Iky, , 
 
 With like advantage rais'd his eye ; 
 And looking forth in profped: wide 
 His Tory errors clearly fpied, 
 And from his elevated ftation, 
 With bawling voice began addrefling, 
 ** Good gentlemen and friends and kin. 
 For heav'n's fake hear, if not for mine V 
 I here renounce the Pope, the Turks, 
 The King, the Devil and all their works 9 
 A nd wijl, fet me but once at eafe. 
 Turn Whig or Chriftian, what you pleafe y 
 And always mind your laws as jullly j 
 iShould I live long as old Methus*iah, 
 ril never join with Britifli rage, 
 Nor help Lord North, or Gen*ral Gage, 
 
 Nor 
 
 ♦ Socrates is reprcrentcd in Ariftophancs's Comedy of 
 i2ie Cb^is, as hoifted in a basket to aid concemj^lgcioiif 
 
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 ^or lift my gun in future figlitf, 
 Nor take away your chartered riehtf/ 
 Jjor overcome your new-raisM levies, 
 peftroy your towns, nor burn your naviei', 
 Nor cut your poles down while I've breatl^ 
 Tho' raisrd more thick than hatcbel-teeth : 
 But leave king George and all his elves 
 To do their con^'ring work themfclves." 
 
 Tliisfaid, they lo werM him down in ftatfCj 
 filpread at all pointSj|||ike falling cat ; 
 But took a vote firft on the (^ueftion, 
 Tthat theyM accc:pt this full confeflion. 
 And to their fellowftiip and favor, 
 Rellorc him on his good behaviour. 
 
 Not fo, our 'Squire fubmits to rule. 
 But flood heroic as a mule. 
 " You'll find it all in vain, quoth he. 
 To play your rebel tricks on me. 
 All punifhments the world can render. 
 Serve only to provoke th' cfrender; 
 The will's confirm'd by treatment horrid. 
 As hides grow harder when they're curritd. 
 No man e'er felt the halter draw, 
 "With good opinion of the law j 
 Or held in method orthodox 
 His love of Juftice in the flocks 5 
 Or fail'd to lofe by fheriff 's fhears 
 At once his loyalty and ears. 
 Have you made Murray look Icfs big,- 
 Or fmoak'd old Williams to a Whig ? 
 Bid our mobb'd Oliver quit his flation. 
 Or heed his vows of refvgnation ? 
 His Rivington, in dread of flripes, 
 Ceas'd lying fince you flole his types ? 
 And can you think my faith wi)l alter, 
 "" taFi'ing, whippings Qt th« hakcr ? 
 
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 I'll (1.111(1 the worft j for recompcncd 
 I truft King George and Provicfcnce. 
 And when, our conquell cainM, I come, 
 Array'd in law and terror nome, 
 You 11 rue this inaufpicious niorn» 
 
 , Meanwhile befide the pole, the guard 
 A rt-^^u -.r t..a:^- 1 — I * »j ° 
 
 A Bench of Juftice had prfipar'dy 
 Where fittinjf round in avmil fort,^ 
 The grand Committee hold their court ; 
 While all the crew in fil«*«t awe, 
 Wait from their lips the lore of law. 
 Few moments witn deliberation. 
 They hold the folemn confultation, 
 When foon in judgment all a^rce. 
 And Clerk declares the dread decree ; 
 ** That 'Squite Al*Fingal having grown 
 The vileft Tory in the town, 
 And now on full examination, 
 Conyi£led by his own confeflion, ^ 
 Finding rid tokens of repentance. 
 This Court prbceed to render fentencc : 
 That firft the Mob a flip-knot finglc 
 Tie round the.neck of faid M'Fingal ; 
 And in due form do tar him next. 
 And feather, as the law dire£ls ; 
 Thenthro' the town attendant ride hirii, 
 In cart with Conftable befide him, 
 And having held him iip to fliame, 
 Bring to the pole from whence he ^ame.** 
 
 Forthwith the croud proceed to deck 
 With haltei'J noofe M|Fingars neck. 
 While he, in peril of his foul, 
 Stood tied half-hanging to the pole ^ 
 ^ Thert 
 
Then lifting high the ponderous j«r, 
 
 PourM o'iir his nead the fmoaking tar : 
 
 With Icfs profufion erft was fpread 
 
 The Jewifli oil on royal head, 
 
 That down his bearcf and vcftmcnts rani 
 
 And cover'd all his outward man. 
 
 As when (lb ♦ Claudian fings) the God» 
 
 And earth-born giants fell at odds, 
 
 The {tout Enceladus in malice 
 
 Tore mountains up to throw at Pallas | 
 
 And as he held them Vcr his head. 
 
 The river from their fountains fed, 
 
 PourVl down his back its copious tide. 
 
 And wore its channels in his hydc : 
 
 So from thehiph raisM urn the torrents, 
 
 Spread down his fide their various currents | 
 
 His flowing wig, as next the brim, 
 
 Firfl met and drank the fable 'ftrcani > 
 
 Adown his vifage flern and grave, 
 
 Roird and adhered the vifcid wave ; 
 
 With arms depending as he ftood. 
 
 Each cuff capacious holds the flood ; 
 
 From nofe and chin's remoteft end. 
 
 The tarry icicles depend ; 
 
 Till all o'erfpread, with colors gay 
 
 He glitter'd to the weftern ray. 
 
 Like fleet-bound trees in wintry fkles. 
 
 Or Lapland idol carv*d. in ice. 
 
 And now the feather-bag difplay'd. 
 
 Is wnvM in triumph o'er his head, 
 
 And fpreads him o'er with feathers miflivcj 
 
 And down lipon the tar adhefive : 
 
 Isfot Maia's Ton, with wingafor '';-:s, 
 
 Such plumes around his vifage wears t 
 
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 * CUudi»ii*sC5iv^ui:o£n{icbi«» 
 
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 Nor Milton's fix wing'd angel gathers^ 
 
 Such fuperfluity of feathers. 
 
 Till all compleat appears our 'Squire 
 
 Like Gorgon or Chimera dire 5 
 
 Nor more could boaft on * Plato's plan 
 
 To rank amid the race of man. 
 
 Or preve his claim to human nature, 
 
 As a two-legg'd, unfeather'd creature. 
 
 Then on the two^wheel'd car of ftatsy 
 They rais'd our grand Duumvirate, 
 And as at Rome a like committee, 
 That found an owl within their cityy 
 With folertin rites and fad pi oceffions. 
 At ev'ry (hrine performed luftrations ; 
 And leaft infection ihould abound. 
 From prodigy with face fo round. 
 All Rome attends him thro* the ftreet,* 
 in triumph to his country-feat : 
 With like devotion all the choir 
 Paraded round our feather'd 'Squire ; 
 In front the martial mufic comes 
 Of horns and fiddles, fifes anddrunris^ 
 With jingling found of carriage bells. 
 And treble creak of rufted wheels ; 
 Behind, the croud in lengthen'd row. 
 With grave proceflion clofed thefhow }'■ 
 And at fit periods ev'ry throat 
 Combined in univerfal (bout. 
 And hajl'd great Liberty in chords. 
 Or bawl'd, Confyfior to the Tories. 
 Not louder ftorm the welkin braves. 
 From clamors of confli£lIngwaveG j 
 Lefs dire in Lybian wilds the noife 
 When rav'ning lions lift their voice ; 
 
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 * Alluding to P!ato*sf4moUJdcfinitioR of Ut^n, ** u4^h 
 
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 Or triumphs at town-meetings made^ 
 X)n pairing votes to rcg'latc trade. 
 
 Thus having borne them round the to^n^ 
 Laft at the pole they fetthem down. 
 And tow'rd the tavern take their way. 
 To end in mirth the feftal day. 
 
 And now the Mob difpersM and gone« 
 Left 'Squire and Conftable alone. 
 The Conftable in rueful cafe 
 Lean'd fad and folemn o'er a brace. 
 And faft befide him, cheek by jowl, 
 iStuck 'Squire M*Pingal 'gainft the pole, 
 Ghied by the tar t* his rear applied. 
 Like barnacle on veflel's fide. 
 But tho' his body lack'd phyfician. 
 His fpirit, was in worfe condition. 
 He found his fears of whips and ropes. 
 By many a drachm outweighed his hopes* 
 As men in goal without mainprize. 
 View ev'ry thin^ with other eyes, 
 And all goes wrong in church and ftatc 
 Seen thro' perfpeilive of the grate ; 
 So now M^Fingal's fecond-fight 
 Beheld all things in difl'rcnt light ; 
 His vifual nerve, well purg'd with tar. 
 Saw all the coming fcenes of war* 
 As his prophetic foul grew itronger. 
 He found he could hold in no longer ; 
 Firft from the pole, as fierce he fhook. 
 His wig from pitchy durance broke, 
 His mouth unglued, his feathers flutter'd. 
 His tarr'd fkirts crack'd, and thus he utter'd, 
 !^* Ah, Mr. Conftable, in vain 
 We ftrive 'gainft wind and tide and rain ! 
 pehold my doom ! this feather'd omen 
 {'.ortends what difmal times are coming. 
 
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 JIow future fccncs before my eyc8^ 
 And fecond-fighted forms arife j 
 I hear'a voice that calls away. 
 And cries, the Whigs will win the day ^ 
 ^y beck'ning'Genius gives command^ 
 And bids us ny the fatal land ; 
 Where changing name and conftitutiotii 
 Eebellion turns to revolution, 
 While Loyalty opprefs'd in tears. 
 Stands trembling for its neck and ears. 
 Go, fummon all our brethren greeting. 
 To mufter at opr ufual meeting. 
 There my prophetic voice IhalT warn *cm. 
 Of all things future that concern *em. 
 And fcenes difclofe on which, my friend, 
 Their conduft and tht'r lives depend : ' 
 There I — but firft. *tis more of ufe, 
 From this vile pole to fetme loofe ; 
 Then go with cautious fteps and fteady, 
 '^hile I (leer home <ihd make all ready. 
 
 i: N P OF CANTO Thir» 
 

 M ' F I N G A L: 
 
 CANTO FOURTH, 
 
 OR 
 
 Tpg VISION. 
 
 NO W night came down, and rofe full foom 
 That patronefs of rogues, the Moon j 
 Beneath whofe kind, protecting ray- 
 Wolves, brute and human, prowl lor prey. 
 The honeft world all fnored in chorus, 
 "While owls, and gfi oils and thieves and"TorieS| 
 Whom erft the mid-day fun had aw*d, 
 Crept from their lurking holes abroad. « 
 On cautious hinges, flow and fliller 
 Wide oped the great MTingaFs * cellar. 
 Where (hut from prying eyes in clufter. 
 The Tory Pandemonium mufter. 
 Their chiefs all fitting round defcried are^ 
 On kegs of ale ana feats of cyder ; 
 When firil M'Fingal dimly feen 
 Rbfe folemn from the turnep-bin. 
 Nor yet his f form had wholly loft 
 The original brightnefs it could boaft. 
 
 Nor 
 
 ^ Pandicur incerea domus omnipocentis Olympic 
 Congiliumq ; vocic Divum pacer acq ', hominum rex 
 Sideream infedcm. Lib. lo. £ncid. 
 
 ^ — -— His form had not yet loft 
 . All its original brightnefs, noi Appe<li:'4 
 I'Cfs tban Arch«n|;el ruin'd* Milttv, 
 
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 Norlefs appeared than Juftice Quoruii;!, 
 Jn feather'd majefty before *em. 
 Adown his tarftrcak'd vifage, clear 
 Fell glift'ning faft th* indignant tear. 
 And thus his voice, in mournful wile, 
 Purfued the prologue of his fighs. 
 
 " Brethren and friends, the glorious ban4 
 Of loyalty in rebel land ! 
 It was not thus youVe feen me fitting 
 Returned in triumph from town-meeting. 
 When bluftring Whigs were put to ftand^ 
 And votes obey'd my guiding hand. 
 And new commiiTions pleas*d my eyes j 
 Bled days, but ah, no more to rife ! 
 Alas, againft my better light 
 And optics fure of fecond-fight. 
 My ftubborn foul in error ftrong. 
 Had faith in Hutchinfon too long. 
 See what brave trophies fliil we bring 
 |From all our battles for the king ; 
 And yet thefe plagues now paft oefore us. 
 A re but our entring wedge of forrows. 
 1 fee in glooms tempeftuous itand 
 The cloud impending o'er the land ; 
 That cloud, which (till beyond their hopes 
 Serves all our oratars v/ith tropes. 
 Which tho* from our own vapors fed, 
 Shall point its thunders on our head ! 
 I fee the Mob, beflipp'd in taverns. 
 Hunt us, like wolves, thro* wilds and caverns jf 
 What dungeons rife t* alarm our fears. 
 What horfewhipswhiftle round our cars ! 
 Tar yet in embrio in the pine 
 Shall run, on Tories backs to (hine ; 
 Trees rooted fair in groves of fallows 
 Are growing for our future gallows ; 
 
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 And geeCe unhatchM, when pluck'din fray/ 
 Shall rue the feathering of that day. 
 For me, before-thefe fatal days 
 I mean to fly th* accurfed place. 
 And follow omens, which of late 
 Have warnM me of impending fate 5 
 Yet pafs'd unnoticed o*er my view. 
 Till fad convi£^ion proved them true j 
 As prophecies of heft intent. 
 Are only heeded in th' event. 
 
 For late in vifions of the night 
 The gallows flood before my light ; 
 I faw its ladder heav'd on end ; 
 I faw the deadly rope defcend j 
 And in its noofe that wav'ring fwang*. 
 Friend * Malcolm hung, or feem'd to hang. 
 How changed fforti him, who bold as lyon,^ 
 Stood Ard-de-Camp to Governor Trybn^ 
 Made rebels vanifh once, like witches. 
 And faved his life, but dropp'd his breeches- 
 Ifcarce had made a fearful bow, j^ 
 
 And trembling afk'd him, " How d'ye do." 
 When lifting up his eyes fo wide. 
 Mis eyes alone, his hands were tied j 
 "VVith feeble voice, as fpirits ufe, 
 Now almoit choak'd with gripe of noofe ; 
 
 "Ah 
 
 * Malrotm was a Scotchman, Aid to Governor Trjron iti 
 his expediiiun againii the RcguUiors in Norch-Carolina, 
 vhere in the engagement he met it^ith the accident of th^ 
 breeches here alluded to. He vjs afterwards an under~ 
 o^cer of the cufloms in Boftort, where becoming orbnoxi- 
 ous, he was tarred, feathered, and half hanged by the mob, 
 about the year 1774. After this he wss negleded and avoid- 
 ed by his own party, and thinking his merits and fiifrcringi 
 tirnrewarded, appeared equally mulevolcric againft ^hi^$ 
 andTories. 
 
 The pretences of the IligllaJiders to prophecy ty fccoiid- 
 ii^ht Rtf coo well knoirn cu need an cxplaiudon. 
 
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 *' Al\ f fly, my friend, he cried, efcape; 
 
 And keep yourfelf from this fad fcrapc ; 
 
 Enough you've talk'd ar.d writ and plann'd i 
 
 The Whigs have got the upper hand. 
 
 Dame Fortune's wheel has turn*d fo fhort| 
 
 It plung'd us fairly in the dirt j 
 
 Could mortal arm our fears have ended. 
 
 This arm (and (hook it) had defended. 
 
 But longer now, 'tis vain to Ray j 
 
 See ev*n the Regulars run away : 
 
 Wait not till things grow defperater, 
 
 For hanging is no laughing matter : 
 
 This might your grandfires' fortunes tell ybu ojl 
 
 Who both were hangM the laftrebellion i 
 
 Adventure then no longer flay, 
 
 But call your friends and run away. 
 
 Forlo, thro* deepeft glooms of night 
 
 I come to aid thy fccond-r]!,4u, 
 
 Dilclofe the plagues that round us v/alt 
 
 Jtind wake the dark decrees of fate. 
 
 Afcend this ladder whence unfurl'd 
 
 The curtain opes of t'other world, 
 
 For here new worlds their fcenes unfold^ 
 
 Seen from this backdoor of the old. 
 
 As when ^neasrifqued his life, 
 
 Like Orpheus vent'ring for his wife, 
 
 And bore in {how his mortal carcafe, 
 
 Thro' realms of Erebus and Orcws, 
 
 Then in the happy fields Elyfian, 
 
 Saw all his embryon fons in vifion : , 
 
 As Oiown by great archangel, Michael, 
 
 Old Adam faw the world's whole fcquel, 
 
 A nd 
 
 ■f There is in thlsfcsnc a general atUi/::in to the appear* 
 ance and f^cechof H?i3:jr's giioft in the fecoaU bbeli wf el»» 
 
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 And from the mount's extended fpacci 
 The rlfing fortunes of his race j 
 So from this ftage (halt thou behold, ^ 
 The war its coming fcenes unfold, 
 Rais'd by my arm to meet thine eye ; 
 My Adam, thou, thine Angel, I. 
 But firft my pow'r for vifions * bright, 
 Muft cleanfe from clouds thy mental Cight, 
 Remove the dim fufFuficns fpread, 
 Which bribes and fal'ries there have bred 9 
 And from the well of Bute infufe, 
 Three genuine drops of Hig^hland dews. 
 To purge, like euphrafy and rue, 
 Thine eyes, for much thou haft to view* 
 
 Now freed frt .n Tory darknefs raife ^ 
 Thy head and fpy the coming days i 
 For lo before our fecorid-fight, 
 The Continent afcends in light ; 
 From north to fouth what gathering fwarmgl^ 
 Increafe the pride of rebel arms ! 
 Thro' ev'ry State our legions brave. 
 Speed gallant marches to the grave. 
 Of battling Whigs the frequent prize^ 
 While rebel trophies ilain the ikies. 
 Behold o*er northern realms afar. 
 Extend the kindling flames of war I 
 See famM St. John's and Montreal, 
 poorn'd by Montgom'ry's arm to fall I 
 Where Hudfon with majeflic fway. 
 Thro' hilk difparted plows his way ; 
 Fate fpreads on Bf^mus' Heights alarms. 
 And pours deftru£tion on our arms ; 
 There Bennington's enfanguin'd plain. 
 And Stony-Point, the' prize of Wayne. 
 
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 fielioM Rear DclVare's icy roar, 
 Where mornirg dawns on Trenton's fhortf/' 
 While Heffiang fpread their Chridmas feafts'/ 
 Rufh rude thefe uninvited guefls ; 
 Nor aughtavail, to Whig*" a prize, 
 Their martial whilkcrs' grifly fize. 
 On Princeton plains our neroes yield. 
 And fpread in flight the vanqui(h*d field,' 
 While fear to Mawhood's heels puts on . 
 Wings, wide as Worn by Maia's fon. 
 Behold the Pcnnfylvanian fJiore, 
 EnrichM with ftreams of Britiih gore ;' 
 Where many a vtt*ran chief in bed 
 Of honor refts his flumbring head. 
 And in foft vales in land offoes, 
 Their wearied virtue finds rcpofe. 
 See plundering Dunmore's negro band 
 Fly headlong from Virginia's flrand ; 
 And far on fouthern hiiJs our coufins. 
 The Scotch M*Ponalds fall by dozens 5^ 
 Or where King's Mountain lifts its head,^ 
 Our ruin'd bands in triumph led ! 
 Behold o'er Tarlton's bluftring train, 
 The Rebels ftreteh the captive chain ! . 
 Afar near Eutaw's fatal fprings 
 Defcending Vift'ry fpreads her wings ? 
 Thro* all the land in various chace. 
 We hunt the rainbow of fuccefs ; 
 In vain ! their Chief fuperior ftill 
 Eludes our force with Fabian Ikill^ 
 Or fwl ft defcending byfurprize. 
 Like Pruflia's eagle fweeps the^ prize." 
 
 I look'd, nor yet, oppreft with fears,' 
 Oave credit to my eyes or cars. 
 But held the views an empty dream. 
 On Bcrkly's immaterial fcheme j 
 
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 And pond ring fad with troubled breaft 
 
 At length my rifing doubts cxprefs^d. 
 
 ** Ah whither, thus by rebels fmitten, 
 
 Is fled th' omnipotence of Britain, 
 
 Or faii'd its ufual guard to keep. 
 
 Gone traunting or fall'n afleep ; 
 
 As Baal his prophets left confounded, ■ 
 
 And bawling vot'ries gafh'd and wounded ? 
 
 Bid not, retired to bow' rs Elyiian, 
 
 Great Mars leave with her his commifllon. 
 
 And Neptune erft in treaty free, 
 Give up dominion o'er the fea ? 
 Elfe Where's the faith of famed ofations, 
 Addrefs, debate and proclamations. 
 
 Or courtly fermon, laureat ode, 
 
 And ballads on the watry God j 
 
 With whofe high (trains great George enrichef 
 
 His eloquence of gracious fpeechcs ? 
 
 Not faithful to our Highland eyes, 
 
 'JThefe deadly forms of vifion rife ; 
 
 Butfure fonie Whig-infpiring fprite 
 
 Now palms delufion on our fight. 
 
 I'd fcarcely truft a tale fo vain. 
 
 Should revelation prompt the ftrain. 
 
 Or Oflian's ghoft the fcenes rehearfe. 
 
 In all the melody of * Erfe." ' 
 
 ** Too long, quoth Malcolm, with Confulioiii ] 
 You've dwelt already in delufion. 
 As Sceptics, of all fools the chief. 
 Hold faith in creeds of unbelief. 
 I come to draw thy veil afide 
 Of error, prejudice and pride. 
 Fools love deception, but the wife 
 Prefer fad truths to pleafing lies. 
 For know thofc hopes can ne'er fucceed 
 That trud on Britain's breaking reed. 
 
 For 
 f Erfc, the anticnt Scottisl. Uneuagc, in ▼hich Ofliia 
 |r;:oce bis nocms, ^-^^-^ 
 
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 for wcak'ninpr lon^ from bad to worff 
 
 By fatal atrophy of purfc, 
 
 She feela at length with trcmbliiig heart, 
 
 Her foes have found her mortal part. 
 
 As famed Achilles, dipt by Thetis 
 
 In Styx, asfungin antieni ditties, 
 
 Grew all calehardeiiM o*cr like ftael, 
 
 Invulnerable, favc his heel, 
 
 And laughM at fworrlsand fpenrs, as fquibj^ 
 
 And all difeaft-s, but the kibir. ; 
 
 Yet met at lad his fatal wound, 
 
 By Paris* atroiv nailM to ground : 
 
 So Britain's boafled ftrength defcrts. 
 
 In thefe her empire's urmoft fkirrs, 
 
 Remo'/'d beyond her fierce impreflions. 
 
 And atmpfphere of omniprefence ; 
 
 Kor to thefe (liores remoter ends, 
 
 IIt?r dwarf omnipotence extends : 
 
 Whence in this turn of things fo ftrange, 
 
 'Tis time our principles to chang^e. • 
 
 For vain that boafted faith, which gather| 
 
 No perquillte, but tar and feathers. 
 
 No p.Ty^ but \V!ng*s infulring malice. 
 
 And no oromotiou, but the gallows. 
 
 I've long enough flood firm and fteady, 
 
 Half.hangM for loyalty already : 
 
 And could I fave mv neck and pelf 
 
 I'd turn a flaming Whig myfelf. 
 
 And quit this caufe and courlV and calling^ 
 
 liike rats that fly from houfe that's falling,, 
 
 But iincc, obnoxious here to fate, 
 
 1'his faving wifdom comes too late. 
 
 Our nobleft hopes already croft, 
 
 Our fal'ries gone, our titles loft, 
 
 poom'd to worfe fuft 'rings irom the mob, 
 
 ill an Satan's furg'rics ufed on Job 5 
 
 What 
 
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 Whttmorc remains but now with height, 
 Wh.it's kft of us to lave by flight ? 
 
 Now raife thine eyes for vifions true 
 Again afcending wait thy view." 
 I lookM and clad in early light, 
 The fpires of Bofton rofe to fi^ht 5 
 The mom o'er eallern hills afar, 
 Illum'd the varying fcencs of war. 
 GieatHowe had long fince in the lap 
 Of Lorin;T taken out his nap, 
 And with the fun's afcending ray, 
 The cuckold came to take his pay* 
 Whep all th' encircling hills around. 
 With indantaneous breaft works crown'd, , 
 With pointed thunders met his fight. 
 By magic rear'd the former night. 
 Each fummit, far as eye commands. 
 Shone peopled with rebellious bands. 
 Aloft their tow'rinof heroes rife. 
 As Titans erft aflail'd the ikies. 
 Leagued with fuperior force to prove. 
 The fcepterM hand of Britiih Jove. 
 Mounds piled on hills afcended fair 
 "With batt'ries placed in middle air, 
 That rais'd like angry clouds on high 
 Seem'd like th* artill'ry of the Jky, 
 And hurlM their fiery bolts amain. 
 In thunder on the trembling plain, 
 I fdw along the proftrate llrand. 
 Our baffled GenVals quit the land. 
 And fwi ft as frighted mermaids flee, 
 T* our boalled element, the fea ! 
 Refign that long contefted ihore. 
 Again the prize of rebel-power, 
 And tow'rdtheir town of refuge fly, 
 Jjifce convicl Jewj condemn'd to i\ie* 
 ;), ^^. Then 
 
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 Then tow'rd the north, I turn*d ttiytjct^ 
 Where Saratoga's heights arife. 
 And faw our cnofen vet'ran band, 
 Defccnd in terror o'er the landj 
 T* oppofe this fury of alarms. 
 Saw all New-England wake to arms, 
 And evVy Yanky full of mettle. 
 Swarm forth, like bees at found of kettle. 
 Not Rome, when Tarquin raped Lucrctiai 
 Saw wilder muftring of militia. 
 Thro* all the woods and plains of fight. 
 What mortal battles fillM my fight. 
 While Britifh corfesltrewM the (horc, 
 And Hudfon ting'd his ftreams with gore | 
 What tongue can tell the difmal day, 
 Or paint the party-color'd frayj 
 When yeomen left their fields afar. 
 To plow the crimfon plains of war ; 
 "When zeal to fwords transformed their fharei. 
 And turn'd their pruning-hooks to fpears, 
 ChangM tailor's geefe to guns and ball. 
 And itretch'd to pikes the cobler's awl ; 
 While hunters fierce like mighty Nimrod^ 
 Made on our troops a daring inroad ; 
 And levelling fquint on barrel round, 
 Brought our beau-officers to ground ; 
 %Vhile rifle-frpclcs f<fnt Gen'rals cap'ring, 
 And i^dcoats Ihrunk from leathern apron^ 
 And epaulette and gorget run 
 From whinyard brown and rufty gun : 
 While funbu;"nt wigs in high command^ 
 Rulh furious on our frighted band. 
 And antient'beards and hoary hair. 
 Like meteors ftream in troubled air. 
 With locks unfhorn not Samfon more 
 J^I^de ufelefs all the Ihow of war. 
 
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 Kor fought with afles jaw for rarityy 
 With more fuccefs or fingularitv. 
 I fawour retVan thoufands yield 
 And pile their mufltets on the field. 
 And pcafant guards in rueful plight 
 Marcn off our captured bands from fight; 
 While ev'ry rebel-fife in play. 
 To Yanky-doodle tun'd its lay, 
 And like the mulic of the fpheres, 
 Mellilluous footh'd their vanquiih'd ears. 
 
 " Alas, faid I, what baleful flar. 
 Sheds fatal influence on the war, 
 And who that chofcn Chief of fame. 
 That heads this grand parade of fhame f*^ 
 
 •' There fee how fate, great Malcolm cri$d5 
 Strikes with its bolts the tow'rs of pride. 
 Behold that martial Mncaroni, 
 Compound of Phcebus and Bellona, 
 With warlike fword and fingfong lay. 
 Equipped alike for feafl or tray, 
 Where equal wit and valour join ; 
 This, this is he, the famied Burgoync r 
 Who pawn'd his honor and commiffion, 
 'to cOax the Patriots to fubmiilion. 
 By fongs and balls fecure obedience. 
 And dance the ladies to allegiance. 
 Oft his camp mufes he'll parade, . i|^ 
 
 At Bolton in the grand blockade, 
 And well invoked with punch of arracl'y 
 IJold converfe fweet in tent or barrack, 
 Infplred in more heroic fafhion, 
 Both by his theme and fituatiori ; 
 While farcp and proclamation grand, 
 ' Rife fair beneath his phiftic hand; 
 J'or genius fwells more llrongand clear 
 When elofe confiuM, like bottled beer : 
 
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 So Prior*s Wit gainM greater powV>' 
 
 By infpi ration of the tovv'r ; 
 
 And Raleigh fail inprifoii hurrd 
 
 Wrote all the hilVry of the world : 
 
 So Wilkes grew, while in goal he lay,' 
 
 More patriotic €v*ry day, 
 
 But fonnd his zeal, when not cpnfin*d| 
 
 Soon fink below the freezing pointy 
 
 And public fpirit once fo fair. 
 
 Evaporate in open air. 
 
 But thou, great favorite of Venus, 
 
 By no fuch luck (halt cramp thy genius ; i 
 
 Thy friendly ftars till wars lliall ceafc,* 
 
 Shall ward th' illfortune of releafe. 
 
 And hold thee fail in bonds ngt feeble. 
 
 In good condition ftill to fcribble. 
 
 Such merit fate fliall fhield from firing. 
 
 Bomb, carcafe, langridge and cold iron. 
 
 Nor truils thy doubly laurell'd head, 
 
 To rude afT^ults of flying lead. 
 
 Hence in this Saratogue retreat, 
 
 For pure good fortune tbou'It be beat ; 
 
 Not taken oft, releas'd or refcued, 
 
 Pafs for fmall change, like fimple Prefcott i 
 
 But captured th^re, as htes befall, 
 
 Shalt (land thy hand for*t, once for all. 
 
 The^raife thy daring thougbtsfublime, 
 
 And dip thy conq'ring pen in rhyme, 
 
 A nd changing war for puns and jokes. 
 
 Write new Blockades and Maids of Oaks*." 
 
 This faid, he turn'd, and faw the tale. 
 Had dyed my trembling cheeks with pale ; 
 
 Thcrt 
 
 * T'hc MaJ-i rtf chc Oaks and the Blockade of Bo^on, are 
 farces— -the firft acknowledged by General Bwrgoync, the 
 oihcr gcncrffUy sfcribcd to hiai. 
 
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 Then pitying in a milder vein 
 Purfued the vifionary ftrain. ' 
 
 ** Too much perhaps hath pain'd your vlt^'i 
 t)f viiSl'ries gain'd by rebel crews ; , 
 Now fee the deeds not fmall or fcantyj 
 Of Britilh Valor and Humanity -, 
 And learn from this.aufpicious fight, 
 How England's fons and friends can Bght^ 
 In what dread fcenes their courage grows^ 
 And how rhey conquer all their foes." 
 , I lookM ana faw in wintry ikies 
 Our fpacious prifon-walls arife, 
 Where Brjtbns all their captives taming, 
 Plied them with fcourging, cold and famine | 
 Reduced to life's concluding ftages, 
 13y noxious food and plagues contagious. 
 Aloft the mighty Loring ftood, 
 And thrived, like * Vampyie,.on their bloody 
 And counting all his gains arifing. 
 Dealt daily rations out of poifon. 
 Amid the dead that croud the fcene,' 
 The moving Ikeletons were feen. 
 ^t hand our troops in vauntifl;^ ftrains> 
 Infulted all their wants and pains, 
 And turned on all the dyin^ tribe. 
 The bitter taunt andfcornful gibe : 
 And Britifii ofTicers of might, 
 Triumphant at the joyful nght, ' ^ 
 
 0* -r foes difarm'd with courage daring/ 
 Exhaufted all their tropes of fwearing. 
 Around all ftlin'd with rebel blood. 
 Like Milton's lazarhoufe it ftood, - ■ 
 
 L Where 
 
 * The notion of Vampyres is « A'perflicion, that .^ii 
 gtea'57prcv;»i!«d in manj pjirts of Europe. They prftcnt4 
 it is A dead hoAy, whicji rHes out of icj gruvc in the nr^^xVi 
 ^ni fucks the blooJ •{ the living. 
 
 
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 Where grim Delpair attended nurfe; 
 And Death was Governor of the houfd' 
 Amaz'd I cried, ** Is this the way. 
 That Britifh Valour wins the day r" 
 More had I faid, in ftrains unwelcome, 
 Till intcrrnpted thus by Malcolm : 
 ** niame not, cjuoth he, biit learn the reaf6il 
 Of this new rnode of conq'ring treafori. 
 'Tis hut a wife, politic plan, 
 To root out all the rebel-clan ; 
 (For furely treafon ne*er can thrive, 
 "Where not a foul is left alive :) 
 A fcheme, all other chiefs tofurpafs. 
 And to do ih' effeOual work to purpofd 
 For war itfelf is nothing further. 
 But th' art and myftery of murthcr, _ 
 And who moil methods has eflay'd, 
 Is the beft Gen'ral of the trade. 
 And (lands Death's Plenipotentiary,' 
 To conquer, poifon, (larve and bury. 
 This Howe well kn^w, and thus began^' 
 (Defpifing Carlton's coaxing plan, 
 Who kept his p/is'ners well and merry. 
 And dealt them food like Conjmiffary, 
 And by paroles and ranfoms vain, 
 pifmifsM them all to fight again :) 
 Whence his firft captives with great fpirit,' 
 He tied up for his troops to fire * at. 
 And hoped they'd learn on foes thus taken/ 
 To aim at rebels without fhaking. 
 Then wife in ftratageih he planned 
 The fure deftrudion of the land, 
 
 * This vas done openljr and \rlthout ccnfiire hj the troop5 
 under Hope's corpmand in ninny initanc€$} on bis £rlt coft- 
 qa«ft of JLong-iniand» 
 
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 Turn'd famine, fickncfs and defpairj 
 To ufeful enginry of war, 
 Jnftead of caiinon, mulket, mortar, 
 IJfed peflilcDce and death and torture. 
 Sent forth the fmall pox and the greater, 
 To thin the land of ev*ry traitor. 
 And order'd out with like endeavour, 
 Detachments of the prifon-fever j 
 Spread dfcfplation o'er their head. 
 And plagues in Providence's Itead, 
 Performed with equal Ikill and beauty, 
 Th' avenging angel's tour of duty. 
 Brought all the elements to join, 
 Andltars t' aflift the great defign, 
 As once in league with Kifhon's brock, 
 Famed Ifrael's foes the/ fought and took. 
 Then proud to raife a glorious name. 
 And em'lous of his country^s fame, 
 He bade thefe prifon-walls arlfe, 
 tike temple tow'ring to the Ikies, 
 Where BHtifh Clemency renown'd, 
 Might fix her feat on facred ground ^ 
 (That Virtue, as each herald faith, 
 Of whole blood kin to Funic Faith) 
 Where all her Gcdiike'powVs unveilingj 
 She finds a grateful fhnne to dwell in, 
 Then at this altar for her honor, 
 .Chofe this Highpriefl to wait upon her, 
 Who with juil rites, in antient riiifes, 
 Prefents thefe human facrificcs ; 
 Qreat Loring, famed above laym n, 
 A proper Pried; for Lybian An vnon. 
 Who, while Howe's gift hie ^rev s ad^rns^ 
 Had match'd that deity in he 1113, 
 Here ev'ry day her vot'ries tell 
 {Jhe more devours than th* idol Bel ; 
 '■'" ■ * ■ ' And 
 
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 And thirfts more rav'noufly for gore,' 
 
 'j han aiiY'Worihipp'd PoVr before. 
 
 That antient Heathen Godhead, Moloch^ 
 
 Oft lt;iy*d his ftomaqh with a bullock, 
 
 Or if his morning rage you'd check firftj 
 
 One child fufficed him for a breakfaft* 
 
 But Britiilv Clemency with zeal 
 
 Devours her hundreds at a meal. 
 
 Right well by ^at'ralifts defined, 
 
 A Being of carniv'rous kind. 
 
 So erlt *Gargantua pleas'd his palate, 
 
 And car his pilgrims up for fallad. 
 
 3Not bleft with maw lets cercmonioiis, 
 
 The wide-mouth *d whale that fwallov/'d Jonas ^ 
 
 Like earthquake gapes, to death devote. 
 
 That open fepulchre, her throat ; , 
 
 The grave, or barren wonib you'd flufF, 
 
 And fooner b/ing to cry, enough j 
 
 Or fatten up to fair condition, 
 
 jThe leanflefli'dkine of Pharaoh's vifiono 
 
 Behold her temple where it ftands 
 Eredl by famed Britannic hands •, 
 * Tis the blackhole of Indian ftrutturj, 
 New-built with Englifh architedlure. 
 On plan, 'tis faid, contrived and wrote^ 
 By Clive, before he cut his throat ; ^ 
 Who ere he took himfelf in hand, 
 Wis her Highprieft in Nabob-land : 
 Avid when with con q' ring glory crown'd, 
 He'd V ell enflav'd the nation round, ^ 
 W'th pitying heart the gen'rous chief, 
 (Since flav'ry's worfe than lofs of life) 
 Bade defobtion circle far, 
 And famine end the work cf war ; 
 
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 ^': See Mb^hh'shiRory o{tU ihntCzTiiMUi 
 
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 Thui loofed iheir chains and for their m^ritg 
 t)ifmifs*d them free to worlds of fpirits : 
 Whence they yrith j?ratitude and praife, 
 Returned ? to attend his latter days. 
 And hov'ring round his reftlefs bed. 
 Spread nightly vifions o'er his head. 
 
 " Now turn, he cried, to nobler fights. 
 And mark the prowefs of par fights : 
 Behold like whelps of Britifii Lyon, 
 The warriors, Clinton, Vaughan and Tryon, 
 March forth with patriotic joy, . * 
 
 To ravifh, plunder, burn, deltroy. 
 Great Gen'rals foremoft in the nation. 
 The journeymen of Defolation ! 
 Like Samfon's foxes each affails. 
 Let loofe with firebrands in their tailsj, 
 And fpreads deftruclion more forlorn. 
 Than they did in Philiftine com. 
 And fee in ftames their triumphs rife. 
 Illuming ail the nether fkies, • 
 And ftreaming, like a new Aurora, 
 The weilern Jiemifphere with glory I 
 What: towns in afhes laid confefs 
 Thefe heroes* prowefs andfuccefs [ ; 
 
 What blacken'd walls, or burning fane, 
 f'or trophies fpread the ruin'd plain ! 
 What females caught in evil hour. 
 By force fubmit to Britifli power. 
 Or plundered Negroes in di fatter 
 Confefs king George their lord and matter | 
 'Vtfhzt crimfon corfes ftrew their way 
 Till fmoajcing carnage dims the day ! 
 
 Along 
 
 * Cllvc In the latter years of his life conceived himfelf 
 perpetually haunted by the ghofts of thofe, vho vcrc the 
 Vi^ims of his British hiimanitjr in the Eaft-Indi^s, 
 
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 Along the (hore for fure redudion 
 They wield their befom of deilru£lioQ» 
 Great Homer likens, in his Ilias, 
 To dogftar bright the fierce Achilles 5 
 But ne'er beheld in red proceflion. 
 Three dogflars rife in cuniteilation ; 
 Or faw in glooms of cv'ning miily. 
 Such (igns of fiery triplicity. 
 Which far beyond the comet's tail. 
 Portend deftru£bion where they fail. 
 Dh had Great-Britain's godlike fliore. 
 Produced but ten fuch heroes more. 
 They'd fpared the pains and held the ilatioi^i* 
 Of this world's final conflagration, ^ 
 
 Which w^hen its time comes, at a itand, 
 Would find its work all done t* its hand I 
 
 Yet tlio* gay hppes our eyes may blefs 5 
 iti i^nant fate forbids fuccefs ; 
 Like morning dreams our conqueft flies, 
 Diioers'd before the dawn arife." 
 
 ?! 're Malcolm paus'd ,; when pond'ring long'* 
 Grt f thus gave utterance to rny tongue. * 
 
 ** Where fhrink in fear our friends ailmay'd. . 
 And all the Tories^ pfomis'd aid, ''' 
 
 Can none amid thefe fierce alarms 
 AfTift the pow'r of royal arms ?'* 
 ^* In vain, he cried, our king dependS| 
 On promis'd aid of Tory-friends. 
 When our own efforts want fuccefs, 
 ]Friends ever fail as fears increafe. 
 As leaves in blooming verdure wove, 
 In warmth of fummer cloath the grove. 
 But when autumnal frofts arife. 
 Leave bare their trunks to wintry flcies ;. 
 So while your pow'r < n a . <! their ends, 
 you ne'er can need ten thoufand friends, 
 
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 But once in want by foes difmay'd. 
 
 May advertife them ftol'n or ilray'd. 
 
 Thus ere Great-Britain's ftrength grew flact/ 
 
 She s^ainM that aid, (lie did not lackj 
 
 But now in dread, imploring pity. 
 
 All hear unmov'd her dol'rous ditty ; 
 
 Alle^ance wand'ring turns aftray, 
 
 And Faith grows dim for lack of pay. 
 
 In vain (he tries by new inventions, 
 
 Fear, falfliood, flattery, threats andpenfions/ 
 
 Or fends Commifs'ners with credentials 
 
 Of promifes and. penitentials. 
 
 As tor his fare o'er StyX of old, 
 
 The Trojan ftole the bough of gold, 
 
 And leaft grim Cerberus fhould make head/ 
 
 Stuff M both his fobs with * gingerbread 5 
 
 Behold at Britain's utmoft fbifts. 
 
 Comes Johnftone loaded with like gifts/ 
 
 To venture thro' the Whiggifh tribe, 
 
 To cuddle, wheedle, coax and bribe. 
 
 Enter their lands and on his journey, 
 
 FoffefTvon take, as iCing's Attorney, 
 
 Buy all the vaflals to prote£l him, 
 
 And bribe the tenants not t* eje£l him f 
 
 And call to aid his defp'rate mifllon. 
 
 His petticoated politician. 
 
 While Venus join*d t' affift the farce. 
 
 Strolls forth Embafiador for Mars. 
 
 In vain he ftrivca, for wliUe he lingers, 
 
 Thefc mailiffs bite his off'rJng fingers ; 
 
 Nor buys for George and realms infernal. 
 
 One fpaniel, but the mongrel Arnold. 
 
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 Twcrc vain to paint in vi(i6n*d fliovf ^' 
 The mighty nothings cIqiic by Howe }' 
 What towns he takes in mortal fray. 
 As ftations, whence to run away 5' 
 What conquers gain'd in battles wariift,' 
 To us no aid, to them no harm ; 
 For ftill the event alike is fatal, 
 What'er fuccefs attend the battleV 
 If he gain vi£lory, of lofe it. 
 Who ne*er had fkill enough to life it ; 
 And better 'twere at their expencc, 
 T* have druBb*^ him into cottimori fenfc/ 
 And wak'd by ballings on his rear, 
 Th* adlivity, tho* but of fear. ^ 
 By flow advance his arn^s prevail,- 
 I-ike emblem sHc! march of inail 5 
 That be Millennium nigh or far, 
 'Twould long before him end the war^ 
 From York to Philadelphian gro-und. 
 He fweeps the nlightyflbu 1*101 found, 
 "IVheel'd circ'far by excenfric ftars, 
 Like racing boys at prifon-bars. 
 Who take the adverfe crew in whole,' 
 By running round the oppTite goal ; 
 Works wide the trlverfe of his courfe^ 
 Like fliip in ftorm§' pppofing force. 
 Like milih<3ffe circling in his race. 
 Advances not a fingle pace, 
 And leaves no trophies of feduflion. 
 Save that of cankerworms, deftru6lion. 
 Thus having long both countries curlt, 
 He quits them, as he found them firil-,- 
 StCers home difgraced, of little worth, 
 To join Biirf^oyne and rail at North. . 
 
 Now raife thine eyes, and view with pleafiirc. 
 The triumphs of Ms famed fuccefTof." 
 
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 I lookM, andnowby magic jorej 
 Faint role to view the Jcriey (liorc ; 
 But dimly /een, in glooms array'd, 
 For Ni^ht h:id pour*d her fable (hade^ 
 And ev'ry ftar, with glimmerings pale> 
 Was muffled deep in evening veil : 
 Scarce viliblc in dulky night, 
 Advancing redcoats rofc to fight ; 
 The lengtnenM train in gleaming rows 
 Stole iileiit from their flumbVing foes, 
 Slow moved the baggage and the trainj 
 Like fnail crept noifeicfs o*er the plain; 
 No trembling foldier dared to fpeak, 
 And not a wheel prefum'd to creak. 
 My lccf!cs my new furprize confefs'd, . 
 Till by great Malcolm thus addrefs'd :*' 
 •' Spend not thy wits in vain refearches ; 
 *Tis one of Clintoii*s moonlight marches; 
 From Philadelphia now. retreating, 
 To fave his anxious troops a beating, 
 With hafby ilride he flies in va?n, 
 His rear attacked on Monmouth plain : 
 With various chance the mortal fray 
 Is lengthen 'd to the clofe of dsy, 
 When his tired bands o'ermatch'd vn fighf*/ 
 Are refcued by defcending nighi. ; 
 He forms his camp with vain parade, 
 Till ev'ning*fpreads the world u'ith fiiadc,- 
 Then {lill, like fome endanger'd fpark. 
 Steals ofFon tiptoe in the dark ; 
 Yet writes his king in boaRing tone, 
 How grand he march'd by light of moon, 
 t fee him •, but thou canftnot; proud 
 He leads in front the trembling croi;d, 
 And wifely knows, if danger's near, 
 !TwiU fall the heavieO: on hia rear. 
 
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 Co on, rrreat Gcn'ral, nor rcp^ard 
 The feoffs of evVry fcribliriff Bard, 
 Who fi'i>r how Gods that fatal night 
 Aideci by miracles your flight. 
 As once they ufed, in Homer s day. 
 To help weak heroes run away ; 
 Tell ho'A^the hours at awful trial, 
 Went back, as erflon Ahaz' dial, 
 Whi]«: Briiifli Jofhua (lay'd the moon,' 
 On Monmouth plains for Ajalon : 
 Heed not tbt ir fneers and gibes fo arch|^ 
 Becaufe (he fet before your march. 
 A fmall miftake, your meaning right. 
 You take her influence for her light j 
 Her influence, which {hall be your guidtf/ 
 And o*er your Gen'ralfhip preiide. 
 Hence ftill (liall teem your empty IkulJ, 
 With vi£i:*ries when the moon's at full. 
 Which by tranfition yet more ftrange, 
 Wpne to defeats beiore the change ; 
 Hence all your movernen's, all your notion^ 
 Shall (leer by like excentric motions, 
 Eciips'd In many a fatal crifis, 
 And dimmed when Walhington arifes. 
 And fee ho v Fate, herfelf turned traitor, 
 Inverts the ainient courfe of nature. 
 And cb<'r.p:e3 manners, tempers, climes. 
 To fuii the i^enius of the times. 
 See Bourbon forms his ^en*rous plan, 
 Firft giiardim of the rights of man. 
 And prompt in firm alliance joins. 
 To aid the Rebels proud defigns. 
 Behold from realms of eaflern day. 
 His fails innumVous fhape their way. 
 In warlike line the billows fv/ecp, 
 And roll the thunders of the deep. 
 
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 See low in cquino6lial ncies. 
 
 The Wellem Iflands fall their prize. 
 
 See Briti(h flags o'ermatch'd in might. 
 
 Put all their faith in inllant flight, 
 
 Or broken fquadrons from th* affray, 
 
 Drag flow their wounded hulks away. 
 
 Behold his chiefs in daiing fetts, 
 
 D'£ftaing8, De Grailes and Fayettes, 
 
 Spread thro* our camps their dread alarms, 
 
 ^.nd fwell the fears or rebel-arms. 
 
 Yet ere our empire fink in night, 
 
 One gleam of hope (hall ftrike the fight 5 
 
 As lamps that fail of oil and fire, 
 
 Colle£t one glimmring to ex -re. 
 
 Andlo where fouthern llio' 3 extend, 
 
 Behold our union'd holls <"^ ^, 
 
 Where Charlcftown views varying beams^ 
 
 Her turrets gild th' encircling iii'^ams. 
 
 There by fuperlor might compeli'd, 
 
 pehold their gallant Lincoln yield. 
 
 Nor aught the wreaths avail hini now, 
 
 PluckM from Burgoyne's imperious brow. 
 
 See furious from the vanquifh'd llrand, 
 
 Cornwall is leads his mighty band ! 
 
 The fouthern realms and Georgian (hore 
 
 Submit and owii the victor's pow'r. 
 
 Lo funk before his walling way, 
 
 The Carolinas fall his prey ! 
 
 In vain embattled hofts of foes 
 
 Effay in warring ftrife t* oppofe. 
 
 See (hrinking from his conq'ring eye. 
 
 The rebel legions fall or fly ; 
 
 And withering in thefe torrid Ikies, 
 
 The northern laurel fades and dies. . 
 
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 triumphant eyes the traveJlM zone, 
 
 And boafls the fouthjern realms his own* 
 
 Nor yet this hero's glories bright 
 
 Blaze only in the fields of fignt , 
 
 Not Howc*s humanity more defcrving, 
 
 In gifts of hanging and of ftarving -, 
 
 Not Arnold plunders more tobacco, 
 
 Orfteals more Negroes for Jamaica 5 
 
 Scarce Rodney's felf among th* Euftatians, 
 
 Infults fo well the laws of nations ; 
 
 Ev*n Tryon's fame grows dim, and mourning; 
 
 He yields the laurel crown of burning, * '- 
 
 I fee with rapture and furprize, 
 
 New triumphs fparkling in thine e^es. 
 
 But view where now renewM in might, 
 
 Again the rebels dare the fight." ^ 
 
 I look*d and far in fouthern fkies. 
 Saw Greene, their lecond hope, arife, ' 
 And with his fmall but gallanfband, 
 Invade the Carolinian land. 
 As winds in ftormy circles whirl'd 
 Rufli billowing o*er the darken-d world. 
 And where their walling fury roves, • 
 Succeirive fwcep th' aftonifh'd grovcst 
 Thus where he pours the rapid fight, 
 Our boafted conquefls fink in nighty 
 And wide o*er all th* extended field, - 
 Our forts refi^n, our armies yield. 
 Till now regained the vanquiih'd land;^ ' 
 He lifts his ilandard on the flrand. ^ 
 
 Again to fair Virginia's coaft, 
 I turn'd and viewM the Britifh hoft. 
 Where Chcfapeak^s wide waters lave 
 Herfliorcs and join th' Atlantic wave. 
 There famM Cornwallis tow'ring rofe, 
 And fcorn'd fccurc his diftant foes 5 
 
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 JIi.3 bands the haughty rampart raifc. 
 And bid th* imperial ftandard blaze. 
 When lo, where ocean's bounds extend^ 
 I faw the Gallic fails afcend, 
 With fav*ring breezes Item their way. 
 And croud with fhips the fpacious bay t 
 Lo Wafhington from northern (horesj 
 p*er many a regfion, wheels his force, 
 And Rochambeau, with legions bright, 
 Defcends in terrors to the fight. 
 Notfwifter cleaves his rapid way, 
 *rhe eagle cow'ring o'er his prey, 
 Or knights in fam^ romance that fly 
 On fairy pinions thro' the Iky. 
 Amaz'd the Briton's ftartled pride, 
 3ees ruin wake on ev'ry fide ; 
 And all his troops to fate confign'd, 
 By inftantaneous llroke Burgoyn 'd. 
 Not Cadmus view'd with more furprize, 
 From earth embattled armies rife, 
 When bjr fuperior pow'r impeli'd, 
 He fow'd with dragon's teeth the field. 
 Here Gallic troops in terror ftand, 
 There rulh in arms the Rebel band ; 
 Nor hope remains from mortal fight, 
 t)r that laft Britiih refuge, flight. 
 I faw with looks downcall.iind grave. 
 The Chief emerging from his * cave, 
 (Where chaced like hare in mighty round^ 
 pis hunters earth'd him firft in ground) 
 And doom'd by fate to rebel fway, ' 
 "jirield all his captur!d hofts a prey. 
 
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 viyhis rciidcncc in a c«iTe» during the iicge of Xock^Tovn* 
 
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 Tliere while I view'd the vanquiihM town^ 
 Thus with a figh my friend went on : 
 f Beholdil thou not that band forlorn, 
 Like flaves in Roman trijimphs borne ; 
 Their faces length'ning with their fears, ^ 
 And cheeks diiiainM with itreams of tears* 
 Like dramatis perfona fage, 
 Equipt to a6t on Tyburn's ftage. 
 Lo thefe are they, who lurM by follies. 
 Left all and follow'd great Cornwallis ; 
 True to their King, with.firm devotion. 
 For confcience fake and hop*d promotion. 
 £xpe61:ant of the promis*d glories, ^ 
 
 And new Millennial (late of Tories. 
 Alas, in vain, all doubts forgetting,^ 
 They tried th' omnipotence of Britain ; 
 But found her arm, once ftrong andbravc^ 
 So ftiorten'd now ihe cannot fave. 
 Not more aghaft departed fouls. 
 Who rillc'd their fate on Fojiifti bulli, ' 
 And find St. Peter at the wicket 
 Refufc to counterfi gn their ticket. 
 When driv'n to purgatory back. 
 With all their pardons in their pack : 
 Than Tories muft'ringat their ftationi 
 On faith of royal proclamations. 
 As Pagan Chiefs at ev'ry crifis. 
 Confirmed their leagues by facrifices. 
 And herds of beafts to all their deities^ 
 Oblations fell at clofe of treaties : 
 Cornwallis thus in antient faihion. 
 Concludes his league of cap*tulation. 
 And viftims due to Rebel-glories, 
 Gives this ^ln-o<^*ring up of Tories. 
 See where reliev'd *om fad embargo, 
 Steer oiF confign recreant cargo, 
 
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 Like old fcJipegoats to roam in pain, 
 Mark'd like their great forerunner, Cain»' 
 The reft, now cloomM by Britifti leaguea, 
 Tojuftice of refentful Whigs, 
 Hold worthlefs lives on tenure ill, 
 Of tenancy at Rebel-will, 
 While hov'ring o'<!r their forfeit perfong. 
 The gallows waits his fare revernons. 
 
 Thou too, M*Fingal, ere that day, 
 Shalt tafle the terrors of th' affray* 
 See o'er thee hangs in angry fkies. 
 Where WhiggiOi con ftellations rife. 
 And while plebeian iigns afcend. 
 Their mob-infpiring afpe<Sts bend ; 
 That baleful Star, whofe * horrid hair 
 Shakes forth the plagues of down and tar I 
 I. fee the pole, that rears on high 
 Its flag terrific thro* the fky ; 
 The Mob beneath prepar'd t' attack. 
 And tar predeftin'd for thy bnck ! 
 Ah quit, my friend, this dang'rous home. 
 Nor wait the darker fcenes to come j 
 l?'or know that Fate's aufpicious dOor, 
 Once fhut to flight is oped no more. 
 Nor wears its hinge by various ftationj,- 
 Like Mercy's door in proclamations. 
 
 But left thou paufe, or doubt to fly. 
 To ftranger vifions turn thine eye : 
 Each cloud that dimm'd thy mental ray,' 
 And all the mortal mifls decay -, 
 See more than human Pow'rs befriend, 
 And lo their hoftile forms afcend ! 
 
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 See tow'ri"ff o'er th* extended flrand/ 
 The G^fiius of the -vvcfteni land, 
 In vengeance armM, his fvvord affumes, 
 And (lands, like Tories, drclt in plumes. 
 See o'er yon Council feat with pride, 
 How Freedom fpreads her banners wide! 
 There Patriotifm with torch addrefsM, 
 To fire with zeal ea<ih daring breaft ! 
 While all the Virtues in their band,' 
 Efcape from yon unfriendly Jand, 
 Defert their antient Britifti ftation/ 
 Pofiefl with ra^c of emigration. 
 Honor, his bufmefs at a (land, . ♦ 
 
 For fear of ftarving quits their land ; 
 And Tuftice, lon^ digraced at Court, had 
 By Mansfield's fcfntence been tranfported. 
 Vift'ry and Fame attend theif way, 
 Tho* Britain wilh their longer ftay. 
 Care not what George or North would be at/ 
 Nor heed their writs of «i' event ; 
 But fired with love.of colonizing, 
 Qu^it the fairn empire for the rifing." . 
 I look'd and faw with horror fmitten,' 
 Thefe hoftile pow'rs averjfe to Britain. 
 When lo, an awful fpe£Vre rofe, 
 With languid palenefs On his brows ;\ 
 Wan dropfies fwellM his form beneath^ 
 And iced his bloated cheeks with death ; 
 His tatter'd robes expdfed him bare. 
 To ev'ry blafl: of ruder air ; 
 On two vi^eak crutches propthe ftood, 
 That bent at ev'ry ftep he trod, 
 Gih titles, jrraced their fides fo flender, 
 One, •* Regulation," t'other, " Tender;" 
 His breaflplate grav'd with various dzrtes, 
 ** The faitli of a!lth' United States';" 
 
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 Before bim went his fun'ral pall, 
 His grave ftood dug to wait his fall. 
 i darted, and aghaft I cried, 
 *^ What means thisfpe6lrc at their fide r 
 "What danger fnom a Pow'r fo vain, 
 And why he joins that fplendid train ?** • 
 ** Alas, great Malcolm cried, experienc«^ 
 Might teach you not to truft appearance. 
 Here (lands, as drcft by fierce Bellona, 
 The ghoft of Continental Money, 
 Of dame Neceflitv defcended, 
 With whom Credulity engendered. 
 Tho' born with conftitution frail, 
 And feeble (Irength that foon mull fail i 
 Yet ftrangely Vers'd in ma^ic lore. 
 And gifted with^transformjng powV. 
 His (kill the wealth Peruvian joins 
 With diamonds of Brazilian mines. 
 As erft Jove fell by fubtle wiles 
 On Danae's apron thro' the tiles, 
 In fliow*rs of gold ; his potent hand 
 Shall flied like lho>y'rs thro' all the land. 
 Lefs great the magic art was reckon'd, 
 Of tallies call by Charles the fecond, 
 Or Law's famed Mifliffipi fchemes. 
 Or all the wealth of 8outhfea dreams. 
 For he of all the world iilone 
 Owns the longfought Philof'pher's fl:one,' 
 Ileftores the ^b'lous. times to view. 
 And proves the tale of Midas true. 
 O'er heaps of rags, he waves his wand. 
 All turn to gold at his command, 
 provide for picfent wants arid future, 
 Raife armies, vi£^ual, clothe, accoutre, 
 Adjourn our conquefls by efToign, 
 Check Howe's advance and take Burgoyne,' 
 Then makes all days of payment vain, 
 And turns all back to rags again. 
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 fn vain great Howe fhall play his parj. 
 To ape and counterfeit his art 5 < 
 
 tn vain (hall Clinton, more belated, 
 A conj'rer turn to imitate it j 
 With like ill luck and pow'r as narrow^ 
 They'll fare, like for'cers of old Pharaoh, 
 Who tho* the art they underftood ' • 
 
 Of turning rivers into blood, 
 And caus*d' their fro^s and fnakcs t' cxift, 
 That with fomc merit croak*d and hifs'd» 
 Yet ne'er by ev'ry quaint device, ' ' ' 
 Could frame the true Mofaic lice. 
 He for the Whigs his arts fhall try. 
 Their fii-ft, and long theitfolc ally ; 
 A patriot Arnci, while breath he draws^, 
 He*ll periHi In his country's caufe ; ' 
 And when his ma^ic labours ceafe, 
 J^ie buried in ptenlal peace, ' \ ' 
 
 Now view the fcenes in future hours, 
 That wait the filmed European Pow'rsy 
 See where yon chalky cliffs arife. 
 The hills 01 Britain (Irike your eyes ; 
 Its fmall extenfibn long fupplied, 
 By vaft immenfity of pride j 
 So fmall, that haci it found a ftation 
 In this new world at firft creation, ' 
 Or were by Juflice doom'd to fuffer. 
 And for Its crimes tranfported over, s 
 We'd find full room for't in lake Eri, op 
 That larger waterpond^ Superiior, 
 Where North on margin taking ftand* 
 Would not be able to fpy land. 
 No more, elate with powV, at eafe 
 She deals her infults round the feas ; 
 See dwindling from her height amain, 
 What piles or ruin fpread the plajn'; \ 
 With mould'ring hulks her pofts are fill'd^ 
 
 Aad bri^mbles clothe the cultur'd field ! 
 
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See on her cliffs her Genius lies, 
 his handkerchief at both his eyes. 
 With many a deepdrawn figh and groan^ 
 To mourn her ruin and his own ! 
 While joyous Holland, France and Spain, 
 With conqVing naviei rule the main, ' 
 And KufTian banners wide unfurlM, 
 Spread coinmeroe round the eaftern world. 
 And fee (fight hateful and tormenting) ' 
 Th* Amer*can empire proud and vaunting, 
 From anarchy (hall change her crafis, 
 And fix her pow*r on firmer bafis ; 
 To glory, wealth and f^me afcend, 
 Her commerce rife, her realms extend j 
 Where now the panther guards his den. 
 Her def irt forells fwarm with mCn, 
 Her ciiies, tow*rs and columns rife. 
 And dazzling ter/iples meet the fkies ; 
 Her pines defcenciing to the main. 
 In triumph fpread the watry plain, 
 Ride inland lakes with fav'ring gales, ^ 
 And croud her ports with whit nmg fails i 
 Till to the fkirts of weftern day, ' 
 
 The peopled regions own her fway." 
 
 Thus tar M'Fingal told his tale, 
 When ^hundring ihouts' bis cars all'ail. 
 And ft rait a 'i ory that flood centry, 
 Aghaft rufliM headlong down the entry, ' 
 And with wild outcry, like magician, 
 DifpersM the refidue of vifion : 
 For now the Whigs in"t»ll*gence found 
 Of Tories muftring und'^r ground. 
 And with rude bangs and loud uproar, 
 *Gan thunder furious at the door. ' 
 
 The Jights put out, each Tory calls 
 Tp coyer him, on cellar walls, * 
 
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 Creep* in cacli box, or biiii or tuby 
 
 'To hide his head from wrath of mob| 
 
 Or lurksi where cabbages in row 
 
 AdornM the fide with verdant (Jiow^,^ 
 
 M*Finjjal deem'd it vain to (lay., • 'r,\. 
 
 And riik his bones in fecoVid fray ^ 
 
 But chofc a errand retreat ^rpm iocs, 
 
 In litVal fenfe, beneath their. nofe. , 
 
 The window then, whicTi none clfc kncw^ 
 
 He foftly open'd and crept thro' , 
 
 And crawling flow in deadly fear, . , 
 
 By movements wife made good his* rear. 
 
 Then fcorning all the faftic of martyr. 
 
 For Bollon took hfj fwift.departure^ . 
 
 Nor dar*d look back on fatarfjpot. 
 
 More than the family df Lot. 
 
 Not North in more diftrefs'd condition, 
 
 Outvoted fi^ft by oppoiition : 
 
 Nor good king George when that dire pha 
 
 O ^ Independence comes to haunt him. 
 
 Which hov'ring round by night and day, . 
 
 Not all lu3 con/fcrs yet can lay. 
 
 His friends, aTI'embled for his fak^^ * :, ,,, 
 
 He wifely left in pawn 'at ftakei;» v 
 
 To tarring, feath ring, kicks and drubs 
 
 Of furiouaydifappointcd mobs. 
 
 Arid with^ their forfeit hides to pay 
 
 Tor h im', , thei r leader, crept away. 
 
 So when wife Noab fummon'd greeting^ 
 
 All animals to gen*ral meeting ; 
 
 From ev'ry.fidc tlie mcmfcers fent- 
 
 AH kinds of beads to reprefent ;, 
 
 Each from tj>e flp^d tookvcare tf cmbaik^* 
 
 And fave his cai-qafe ip tW ark $ 
 
 j^ut as it fares innate and churehi 
 
 iicft his conftftuenj? in thfi lurch. 
 
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