Citation - Boston Gazette: 1749.11.07

BG.749.042
7 Nov 1749:11 (1548)
From the Virginia Gazette.
A RHAPSODY ON RUM.
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Great spirit hail !---Confusion's angry sire;
And like thy parent Bacchus, born of fire:
The jail's decoy, the greedy merchant's lure:
Disease of money, but relection's cure.
. . . [49 more lines, signed:]  J.D.