Social Commentaries
On Alderman W—: The History of His Life
From Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766)
Social Commentaries
That he was born, it cannot be deny'd,
He eat, drank, slept, talk'd politics, and dy'd.
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Text from the Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO-TCP transcription (TCP K093533), Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766).
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