Citation - New Hampshire Gazette-Portsmouth: 1768.01.01

NHG-P.768.002
1 Jan 1768:43 (587)
THE CRISS CROSS ROW, 1767.
Since every day great examples affords
That authors, and others, can trifle with words,
I'll do like the rest, I'll be apeing my betters,
I'll take up my horn book, and play with my letters, 
Great A stands for ale and administration,
And B stands for bubbles and bites in high station; 
(O Britain, thrice happy! from such things exempt,
Thy state so remotely remov'd from contempt!
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