Sunday, December 2, 2007

A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ... By Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine

A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ... By Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine: "care Blown like a pigmy by the winds to war A beardless chief a rebel ere a man So young his hatred to his prince begun Next tb how wildly will ambition steer A vermin wriggling in th usurper's ear Bart ring his venal wit for sums of gold He cast himself into tbe saint like mould Gronn d sigh d and pray d while godliness was Tbe loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train But as tis hard to cheat a juggler's eyes His open lewdness he could ne er disguise There split the taint for hypocritic zeal Allows no sins but those it caa conceal gain "

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