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VGW(HU.766.092
27 Nov 1766:13 (900 [=810])
POLITICAL SQUIBS. . .
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Mourn England, old and new, from shore to shore,
Your great great commoner is now no more.
O Walpole, vers'd in man! 'twas you foretold.
Each for his price would soon be bought and sold.
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SUPPOSED TO BE SPOKEN BY LIBERTY.
Great pity! That critics renoun'd for their wit
Had not wisdom to fathom the depth of a P-tt;
For had they foreseen that my cause he'd have sold,
They'd have sav'd all their boxes of silver and gold.
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Unhappy****! severe, though just, thy lot!
By foes neglected, and by friends forgot:
Nor more shall senates hang upon thy tongue,
And hail thee freedom's firmest, truest son;
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THE LION AND JACKAL. A fable.
A jackal, faithful, firm, and bold,
Grew in the lion's service old;
Had born the weight of publick trust,
And ever was accounted just.
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EPIGRAM ON A LATE GREAT COMMONER.
On banks of Weser, and of Rhine,
Putt cuts the Cherokees to chine;
The Russ and Austrians fled before him,
From Missisippi to Lake Huron.
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