The School of Politicks or, the humours of a coffee-house: a poem. The Second Edition Corrected and much Enlarged by the Author [i.e. Edward Ward] |
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XVI.
[Th'Athenian Itch of hearing News]
Th'Athenian Itch of hearing News,Which does our Faith so oft abuse,
Made me inquisitive to know,
How matters did in Piedmont go:
Piedmont the Place where not long since,
By order from th'most Christian Prince,
Whole Seas of Blood were spilt; but now
By a strange turn of Providence,
Become a shade to persecuted Innocence;
But what we most desire to know,
Does often cheat us with a show.—
The Opticks with which foreign News we view,
Are sometimes false and sometimes true.
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Then Cattinat prevails with his Dragoons,
Then all's refuted in another Letter;
The Circling year has not so many Moons,
As from beyond the Seas to us they send
Their weekly Lies,—
We hope the best, but must our Faith suspend.
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