Citation - Massachusetts Spy-Boston: 1774.05.26

MS-B.774.041
26 May 1774:13 (4/173)
Philadelphia May 4. . . [Lines on gallows at hanging of
effigy of Alexander Wedderburne and Thomas Hutchinson,
"convicted of traducing the American colonies."]
   So wild a tarter, when he spies
   A man that's handsome, valiant, wise,
   If he can kill him, thinks t'inherit
   His wit his beauty, and his spirit:
   As if just so much he enjoy'd.
   As in another is destroy'd.