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NYM(G.770.106
3 Sep 1770:11 (984)
To the great folk, the good folk, the high folk, the mighty
folk, the wise folk, the wonderful folk of the great town,
the good town, the high town, the mighty town, the wise
town, the wonderful town of Boston. Right worshipful, and
much beloved, we greet you well. Your steady virtue and
unrival'd patriotism have been sounded by the trump of fame
from pole to pole, and the inhabitants of the frozen zone
have been warmed by the rays of your heroism. . . [2 columns
of ridicule of events in Boston, includes] And you,
gentlemen, whose experience in these matters is superior,
can testify, that a visage contracted to the model of a
Spanish mule's,---the solemn pace of a dispassionate
Rosinante; and above all, a voice modulated and attuned to
the deep drone of a wild-Irish bagpipe, are never failing
sources of a saintly character, however heathenish morality
may be despised or neglected. . . [The piece is signed]
Ichabod Snuffle, Secry.
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