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BEP(P.783.018
29 Mar 1783:41 (2/76)
From the Freeman's Journal.
HUGH GAINE'S LIFE continued
Asham'd of my conduct, I sneak'd into town,
(Six hours and a quarter the sun had been down)
It was, I remember, a cold frosty night,
And the stars in the firmament glittered as bright
As if (to assume a poetical stile)
Old Vulcan had lent them a rub with his file.
. . . [14 lines]
So nicely could handle and torture a text,
When bloated with lies thro' his trumpet he sounded
The damnable sin of resisting a crown'd head)
. . . [46 lines]
They wanted some solider proofs of my love:
And so they oblig'd me each morning to come
And turn in the ranks at the beat of the drum,
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