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Scarce ended speech when Boyd the host,
Rush'd in and bid each take his post,
In other quarters of the town,
For there was Barry coming down,
With half a legion of the posse,
Swearing should he come across ye,
To tar and feather ye like geese,
And tear my house down in a trice.
 

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