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Occasioned by Lady Pomfret's Present of some Antique Statues to Oxford, the Streets whereof were foolishly said to be paved with Jacobites.
If
Oxford's Stones, as Blaco writes,
And Pitt affirms, are Jacobites,
That bid the Court defiance;
How must the danger now increase,
When Stones are come from Rome and Greece,
To form a grand alliance!
And Pitt affirms, are Jacobites,
That bid the Court defiance;
How must the danger now increase,
When Stones are come from Rome and Greece,
To form a grand alliance!
Yet, sprung from lands of Liberty,
These Stones can sure no Tories be,
Or friends to the Pretender;
And Pitt himself can ne'er devise,
That Whiggish Stones should ever rise
Against our Faith's Defender.
These Stones can sure no Tories be,
Or friends to the Pretender;
And Pitt himself can ne'er devise,
That Whiggish Stones should ever rise
Against our Faith's Defender.
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