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NHG-P.765.058
18 Oct 1765:21,22 (471)
From the Boston-Gazette, Octob. 14.
I han't tit nothing to be printed a great while; but I can't
sleep a nights one wink hardly, of later.--I hear so much
talk about the Stamp-Act and the governor's speech, that it
seems as it 'twoud make me crazy.--The governor has painted
a dreadful picture of the times after the first of
November--I hate the thoughts of the first of November.--. .
. [27 lines] I always used to keep a comely boughton coat to
go to meeting in, but I'le vow I'le never put it on against
after first November, if the stamp act takes place; I'le cut
up the hide of my fat ox that I'm fatting for my winter's
beaf first, and make a coat of that, with the hair on.--I'm
sure I could be edified as much with the sermon, as if I had
on a royal robe, and be as warm in it too.--I've read
somewhere that the folks in old England before Caesar went
there, wore such skins of beasts, and yet loved liberty, and
knew how to keep it too.--I don't believe our young folks
would love to dance together at husking frolicks, and to
kiss one another a bit the less, if they wore woolen shirts
and shifts of their own making, than they do now in their
fine ones.--I do say, I won't buy one shilling worth of any
thing that comes from old England, till the stamp act is
appeal'd, nor I won't let any of my sons and daughters; I'd
rather the Spittlefield weavers should pull down all the
houses in old England, and knock the brains out of all the
wicked men there, than this country should loose their
liberty. . . [7 lines, 22 lines, signed] Humphrey
Ploughiogger.
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