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NYGWPB.770.037
7 May 1770:41 (1427)
The following was wrote in a neighbouring province, by a
friend of mine, who transmitted it to me purely for my
amusement; but the sentiments contained in it are so just,
and the circumstances so striking, that I think it a pity it
should be buried in the oblivion of my desk, and therefore
beg a place for it in your gazette . . . [signed]
Philodemus.
THE COCK-FIGHT. An elegy.
Ah me! what means this cackling all around,
Hen cries to hen, and chickens shrilly sound,
A father these, those mourn a husband dead,
By cruel hands to bloody battle led.
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