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NYJ-N.767.001
1 Jan 1767: (1252 Supplement)
The News Boy's verses, humbly addressed to the gentlemen and
ladies, to whom he formerly carried The New-York Thursday's
Gazette, and now carries The New-York Journal or General
Advertiser.
Oh! Pardon the faults I've committed before!
And I'll be a good boy, and do so no more.
To give his friends pleasure, the news-boy with pain,
Has labour'd this twelve-month,--He hopes not in vain.
--If the least breath of news flew abroad, that was good,
He eagerly caught it as soon as he could,
And he spread it about, to let all the world see,
That none took more pains to give pleasure, than he.
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