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MS-B.774.009
3 Feb 1774:41 (3/157)
Mr. Thomas, Please to give the following lines a place in
Poets Corner, and you will oblige one who wishes we had no
greater annoyances at this day. It is an old ballad
composed and sung by some of the first settlers of New-
England, called New-England's Annoyances, recollected and
repeated lately, by an old lady of 92 years of age, it may
serve to show, not the elegance of the poet, but some of the
hardships, fare and patience of the first settlers of this
country.
New-England's annoyances you that would know them
Pray ponder these verses which briefly do show them;
The place where we live is a wilderness wood,
Where grass is much wanting that's fruitful and good:
. . . [6 more lines, 5 more verses (verse five has only
four lines).]
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