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GG(J.775.021
5 Jul 1775:22 (613)
London, April 13. Many people firmly believed the account
in the papers, some days ago, of General Frazer having his
head struck off at Algiers; and indeed it is not surprising
that they should be so credulous, when we are told that
General himself, on reading the account, was not sure that
it was void of foundation, till he had examined his
shoulders strictly, like Simon in Harlequin's Invasion. . .
[6 lines] And yet as Dryden justly says,
The rabble gather round the man of news,
And, gaping, seem to listen with their mouths;
Some tell, some hear, some judge of news, some make it,
And he who lies most loud, is most believ'd.
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