The fidler's fling at roguery (Canto verace odioso.) In several canto's. to be successively continued [by Edward Ward] |
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THE COMPLAINANT. SET TO AN AIR OF ARCANGELO CORELLI, &c. &c. &c.
The Words are Nothing to the Case:Only The Air shou'd here take Place.)
A most melodious Tune!—Wee'll own:
But Th'Words to Fid were never known.
He mean's, (Tho' They've been read and seen)
By Him They've ne're regarded been.
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Put The stunn'd Fidler on Essays
To vindicate Th'Almighty's Ways.
By witnessing to Truths transacted:
(Altho' He for't be term'd distracted.)
Resolv'd, While Life last's, not to flinch,
Nor bate his Enemys an Inch:
But t'blazon their Arch Treachery
I'th' filthy Rags of Roguery;
Tho' BUTLER, that so well deserv'd,
For Flings at Roguery was starv'd.
Truths that, He think's, portend much Good:
(Tho' not by Man yet understood.)
That Fid's determin'd not to wince
Till He h's divulg'd 'em to his PRINCE,
And all the Sages of his Nation;
(To root up all like Devastation:)
For Briton's future Preservation.
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To their great Candour and good Sense,
Th'Injustice done to Innocence.
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