History & Politics
"I would," says Fox, "a tax devise"
From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson (1918)
History & Politics
"I would," says Fox, "a tax devise
That shall not fall on me."
"Then tax receipts," Lord North replies,
"For those you never see."
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. “"I would," says Fox, "a tax devise".” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sheridan_rb/6/.
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. “"I would," says Fox, "a tax devise".” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sheridan_rb/6/.
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