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elections e'er avow their choice;

Pour in your rabble to each factious town,
And Freedom's sounds, by
shouting numbers drown,
Till Thames' unpeopled waves by

READING glide,
Without one bargeman left to chear the tide;
And
NEWBURY's desart streets lament in vain,
Their servile inmates
gone to swell your train.
Stout FERDINANDO, your obsequious
slave,
Once a rude ruffian, now a pliant knave,
With Stentor's voice
shall swell your pageant pride,
And boldly thunder nonsense on your
side:
The gentle Colonel, simpering SELLWOOD too,
His face
with port and patriot-ardor blue,
With vacant eye shall view your
great intent,
Shall scratch his empty head, and smile assent.
There
too my muse, with rough, tho' honest song,
Shall chant your virtues to
the admiring throng,
Display your various worth in humble lays,

And teach the gaping rabble how to praise,
Re-echo to their ears your
fav'rite word,
And shew respect should always wait MY LORD.

Perhaps, (indulge your Poet's fairy dream),
Perhaps my verse adorn'd
by such a theme,
May in some bark, our navy sail t' explore,
Be
safely wafted to the Atlantic shore:
How will those pious Chiefs
delight to hear
The kindred virtues of a British Peer?
How will thy
deeds enchant, with gentle sway,
The Patriot sons of Massachuset's
Bay?
For all your ardor fires the illustrious train,
In Council bold,
but bashful on the plain:
How will their grateful bosoms love the
verse,
Whose honest lines such great exploits rehearse?
I see their
hands prepare the verdant bough,
I feel their laurel wreaths surround
my brow;
While that long-honour'd strain, whose magic charms
So
oft has called the gallant race to arms,
Shall now at length give place
to newer lays,
And Yanky-doodle yield to CRAVEN'S praise.
THE END.
FOOTNOTE:
[A] A Gentleman who was Proctor, while his L------p was at the
University, and to whom, after a long law suit, he was obliged to
submit; and from whom his L------'s subsequent ill treatment drew a
Pamphlet, stating the whole affair to the Public, to which the curious
reader is referred.

Transcriber's Note
This text contains archaic spelling, which has been retained as printed.
A typographic error on the title page has been amended. EPISTLE was
originally printed as EPISLTE.
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