Citation - Boston Evening Post (Fleet): 1739.10.01

BEP(F.739.028
1 Oct 1739:11 (217)
From the Political State for July, 1739. . . 
[Poem on the impending threat of the Pretender's invasion of
Britain]
On Lybian Plains the lazy lion lies.
Now paws the earth, and now surveys the skies;
While o're him oft the skipping creatures pass,
Less heeded long, than if they brav'd an ass. . . 
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