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CC-H.778.032
10 Nov 1778:11 (720)
From the New-York Packet.
A PARODY ON THE BRITISH COMMISSIONERS MANIFESTO AND
PROCLAMATION.
In mercy spare us when we do our best
To make as much waste paper as all the rest.
. . . [signed] Juvenal.
To public bodies and to all
That colonies we late did call;
Edem, Sir Harry and my Lord!
(All men of might power in word)
Do write unto the world at large,
This long last speech and dying charge!
Whereas we've found, that certain folks
Will neither mind or bribes or jokes;
Nor be persuaded with their betters,
How sweet it is to walk in fetters;
. . . [133 lines] [signed] Aristophanes.
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