Citation - Massachusetts Spy-Boston: 1772.08.27

MS-B.772.064
27 Aug 1772:1081 (2/80)
[5 lines introduction, poem taken from London Magazine.]
THE PRESENT AGE.
Of all the ages every known
The present is the oddest;
For all the men are honest grown, 
And all the women modest.
Nor lawyers now are fond of fees,
Nor clergy of their dues;
No people at the play one sees.
At church no empty pews.
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Just turn the picture upside down,
I fear you'll see the right on't.