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MS-B.771.106
10 Oct 1771:1251 (1/32)
[Introduction to The Centinel. No. XVI.]
--Let Tancred
Seek at Byzantium riches, power, protection;
Let him be honour'd by that odious court;
He has, ye Gods! renounc'd our sacred ramparts,
By basely stooping to a foreign master.
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And great will be our gain, if this be great,
To crush a Minion, and preserve a state.
To still the clamours of a subject's blood,
To fix the basis of the public good,
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