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FJ.781.046
7 Nov 1781:11, 12, 13 (29)
ON THE FALL OF GENERAL EARL CORNWALLIS, who, with eight
thousand men, surrendered themselves prisoners of war to the
renowned and illustrious General George Washington,
commander in-chief of the allied armies of France and
America, on the memorable 19th of October, 1781.
Give us the proudest prisoner of the Goths,
That we may hew his limbs, and on a pile
Ad manes fratrum sacrifice his flesh,
Before this earthly prison of their bones:
That so the shadows be not unappeas'd,
Nor we disturb'd with prodigies on earth.
Shakespear's Titus Andronicus, Act 1. Scene 2.
A devil, ally'd to Howe, Burgoyne and Gage,
Once more, nor this the last, provokes my rage:--
Who saw these Nimrods first for conquest burn!
Who has not seen them to the dust return?
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Then sung the sisters+ as the wheel went round,
+ [footnote: "The Parcae, or fates, who, according to the
heathen mythology, were three in number."
(Could we have heard the invigorating sound)
Thus surely did the fatal sisters sing:---
When just four years do this same season bring
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