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NLS.763.014
2 Sep 1763:21 (265)
[Satirical narrative of man who went to Devon where people
were clamouring about the cyder act.]
Our correspondent further observes, that about two miles
beyond Honiton, he beheld, suspended to an apple tree that
grew over the road, a figure as big as life, dress'd in
Scotch plain, with something to resemble a ribbon over one
shoulder, and on a painted board, affixed to the tree, were
these line:
Behold the man who made the yoke,
Which doth Old England's sons provoke:
But now he hangs upon a tree,
An emblem of our Liberty.
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Liberty, Property, and no Excise.
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