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NYM(G.768.069
23 May 1768:11 (864)
A WHIP FOR THE AMERICAN WHIG, by Timothy Tickle, Esqr.
[VIII.]
Who shames a scribler? break one cobweb thro',
He spins the flight, self-pleasing thread anew:
Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain,
The creature's at his dirty work again,---Pope.
. . . [Followed by 3 columns of prose; in the 3rd:]
When the trumpets of sedition were sounded from those sacred
pulpits, which were usurped by those vile, hypocritical,
prostitute preachers, whom St. Oliver had manufactured out
of taylors, tinkers, and coblers:
"Whose religion, it was fit
"To match their learning and their wit:
"Such as do build their faith upon,
"The holy text of pike and gun,
. . . [6 more lines, signed:] Hudibrass.
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