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PJ.770.061
25 Oct 1770:11 (1455)
Copy of a letter from a gentleman of New-York, in answer to
some strictures, upon the political state of that city, to
his friend in Boston. New-York, October 1, 1770.
Whate'er you may think, my good friend! I protest,
We constantly manage our cards for the best:
Tho' censur'd by some, we were seldom to blame---
We shuffled--We cut---and---We played all the game---
. . . [58 lines]
We neither begin nor break off in the middle,
But mind all the stops--of the government fiddle;
. . . [50 more lines]
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