The works of Mr. Thomas Brown Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse; In four volumes. The Fourth Edition, Corrected, and much Enlarged from his Originals never before publish'd. With a key to all his Writings |
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On the TAX upon SALT.
The Emblem o'th' Nation, so Grave and Precise,On the Emblem of Wisdom have laid an Excise:
Pray tell me, grave Sparks, and your Answer don't smother,
Why one Representative Taxes another?
The Commons on Salt a new Impost have laid,
To Tax Wisdom too, they most humbly are pray'd;
For tell me ye Patrons of Woollen and Crape,
Why the Type shou'd be fin'd, and the Substance escape?
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