Citation - New Hampshire Gazette-Portsmouth: 1767.03.20

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Index Entry Lyric, topical [beg] Time was, and if I ought discern 
Location Boston 
Citation
NHG-P.767.023
20 Mar 1767:31 (546)
Boston, March 14.
By a late Son of Liberty.
Time was, and if I ought discern
Of fate, this time shall soon return,
When decent and demure at least,
As grave and dull as any priest,
I could see vice in robes array'd
Could see the game of folly play'd
Successfully in fortune's school,
Without exclaiming rogue or fool;
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Generic Title New Hampshire Gazette-Portsmouth 
Date 1767.03.20 
Publisher Fowle, Daniel & Robert 
City, State Portsmouth, NH 
Year 1767 
Bibliography B0023788
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