Citation - Massachusetts Spy-Boston: 1773.08.19

MS-B.773.057
19 Aug 1773:41 (3/133)
A DEPOSITION PARODIZED.
A young man who in office keeps,
Where Philalethes writes and sleeps,
With leave doth roundly swear and say,
(No matter in what year or day)
As from New-Boston he did come,
Where he had been to carry home
Some news-prints for his Tory master,
He backwards climb'd and rose the faster:
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