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IA.748.024
10 Oct 1748:12 (41)
Prior.
'TIS BUT BY WAY OF SIMILE.
Have you not seen at country wake,
A crew of dancers merry make?
They figure in, and figure out;
Go back to back, and turn about:
They sett; take hands; they cross; change sides;
(Each movement a scrub minstrel guides)
Around the measur'd labyrinth trace,
'Till each regains his former place.
So certain Potentates (two couple)
Leagu'd in alliance, hight quadruple:
After a maze of treaties run,
Are e'en just where they first begun:
I won't affirm who led the dance;
(Yet for the rhyme, suppose it F---e)
But this I dare, at least to say,
Old E--d must the piper pay.
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