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NYGWPB.770.105
5 Nov 1770:31 (1453)
Finally, I shall in the following lines of that severe
satyrist Churchill, sum up his characters in miniature:
Vice, bold substantial ! vice, puts in her claim,
And stamps him perfect in the rolls of shame:
Observe his follies well, and you wou'd swear,
Folly had been his chief, his only care;
. . . [4 more lines of poetry, 4 lines of prose]
True to those counsels which I judge the best,
I tell the faithful dictates of my breast.
To speak his thoughts, is every freeman's right,
In peace, in war, in council and in fight.
. . . [2 lines of poetry, 19 lines of prose]
If hap'ly should the powers above,
Reject the vow that's paid them;
The powers below they'll strive to move,
And rouse all ---- to aid them."
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