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The Powers of the Pen

A poem addressed to John Curre ... By E. Lloyd ... The second edition, with large additions

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Yet other Ills Mankind beset—
Vice may enmesh us in her Net.
Tho' as a Nation we are free,
Each Individual may be
Subject to Vice's hot Command,
With Magna Charta in his Hand.