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IC.779.002
28 Jan 1779:21 (11/545)
History of the Time. Chap. X.
Verse 1. And there was a monster appeared in one of the
capital cities of one of the great provinces of the
Americanites, in the first month of the year of our Saviour
1779, and in the third year of the republic; and it was
named The Motly Assembly, and it was printed by Cover-lie,
printer in ordinary to farce-makers and underwits.
2. . . [30 lines, describing, in parody of biblical text, a
local author of controversial pamphlets.]
11. And now these new rich people, whom the Son had called
upstart gentry, have made themselves an assembly, which
wrothed him, because he had no hundred dollars to pay, and
he was moved to write a farce against it;
12. Which so provoked the people, that the[y] sware in their
wrath, they wou'd raise Houghes and Cries against him, and
clout him in the streets, and send him home to his Mother
weeping, for he is yet a Boy, . . . [2 lines]
13. Now the said young son has friends who say he never
meant to publish the farce--:
14. But that he was supported and urg'd to it by some
envious and disappointed persons:
15. And now it pleased the people to advise the said young
Son not to be a Scribe, not to be a Pharasee; but to tend
stables, make shoos, kill cattle, light camps, or make
coats, or do any thing but make farces; for it employs the
people so much that they cannot mind their business.
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