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CJ-B.777.047
13 Nov 1777:33 (77)
From the London Magazine, for April 1777. Mr. Urban,
hearing the following ballad sung lately in the streets, I
could not avoid buying and sending it to you, as the
thoughts seem to me so much above par, and are fraught with
so good and kind a meaning, that I shrewdly suspect they
originate from some superior genius in disguise. Your's.
[signed] D. J.
1.
Come let us all pray for protection
To our gracious heavenly God,
Lest we have cause for deep reflection,
Like the unhappy Dr. Dodd,
Who, though so great, so fine a preacher,
And once a chaplain as they tell,
This reverend and learned teacher,
How, alas! alas! he has fell!
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