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RNYG.773.081
23 Dec 1773:13 (36)
Mr. Rivington, Dec. 11, 1773. I find that an independent
fellow, in your last paper, has assumed to himself the
honour of the four patriotic lines against Pop-Li-Cola, and
in favour of smuggling,--or something else--which you
printed some time ago; and which must be allowed to contain
more true spirit of brains, than any four lines that were
ever before retorted. He intimates also, that the
"Continuation was by another hand," --not nearly equal,
sooth to say, to the great original--Such bare-faced
impositions upon the public, I am convinced, cannot long
pass undetected, not go unpunished. 'Tis evident to all the
world --if the world will but open its eyes, (and it's a
blind puppy, if it will not) --that the Continuator is the
original himself; no other person on earth being qualified
to imitate his inimitable style so inimitably. In proof of
what I assert, I here present you with
A Second Continuation of the Liberty Song.
V.
Traddle, traddle, 'tis got in my noddle,
I feel all my spirits arising,
And if Pop-Li-Cola I now should meet, O la!
I sure should do something surprizing.
Chorus. What stuff is for a Hero fitter,
Than that which makes a Comet-Splitter?
. . . [6 more verses of 4 lines each, each with a
different chorus of two lines]
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