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SCG-C.769.017
16 Mar 1769:41 (1747)
From the Georgia Gazette, March 1.
A PARODY ON SHAKESPEAR.
Be taxt, or not be taxt, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in our minds to suffer
The sleights and cunning of deceitful statesmen,
Or to petition against illegal taxes,
And by opposing end them. --
To live, to act, no more, and fast asleep,
To say we end Assemblies, and the thousand
Liberties that Englishmen are heirs to,
'Tis a determination directly to be crush'd;
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