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NHG-P.770.023
29 Jun 1770:33 (715)
THE NEWS-PAPER.
Tis truth (with def'rence to the college)
News-papers are the spring of knowledge,
The general source throughout the nation,
Of every modern conversation.
What would this might people do,
If there, alas! were nothing new?
A news-paper is like a feast,
Some dish there is for every guest:
Some large, some small, some strong, some tender,
For every stomach, stout or slender,
Those who roast beef and ale delight in,
Are pleas'd with trumpets, drums, & fighting;
For those who are more puny made
Are arts and sciences and trade:
For fanciful and amorous blood,
We have a soft poetick food,
For witty and satyric folks,
High season'd, acid, bitter jokes:
And when we strive to please the mob,
A jest, a quarrel, or a job.
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