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PG-P.753.095
21 Jun 1753:12,13 (1278)
[In long, double article on the British herring fishery, in
the middle of the second column:]
I think it not improper, in this place, to refresh the
memory of Britons, with the words of an old tune; which has
been for a long while so tuned, that the said words, at
least the purport of them, seem to be well nigh lost:
Britons strike home,
Revenge your country's wrongs;
Fight and record
Yourself in Druid's song.
. . . [1 column, at the end of the article:]
P.S. I hope, that beside the weighty and unanswerable
arguments of right, property, wealth, honour, and its being
a constant seminary of young sailors--of improving the
natural, the naval strength of our nation; our fishery may
be encouraged by the present public spirited parliament, as
the likeliest means to maintain our necessitous, as well as
dissolute thieving poor--that the scandalous, vagrant tribe
of beggars, ballad-singers, gypsies, shew-men, prize-
fighters, boxers, and night ladies, who are a dead weight on
the trading and industrious part of the community, may be
usefully employed, to the diminishing our poor's rate, as
well as the number of sharpers, pickpockets, and highwaymen.
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