Citation - Connecticut Gazette-New London: 1769.01.06

CG-NL.769.001
6 Jan 1769:41 (269)
[Verses written in 1725 for Ireland, pertaining to the
recent dissolution of the American Assemblies]
  Altho' the metaphor be worn and stale,
  Betwixt a state, and a vessel under sail;
  Let me suppose the for a ship a while,
  And thus address thee in the sailor's stile.
. . . [60 lines, one line refers to the Boston Winter
Assembly, opened at the Concert-Hall, "Yet at a Ball,
unthinking fools delight, In the gay trappings of a birth-
day night"]