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The Birth-Day of Folly

An Heroi-Comical Poem, By Peter [i.e. G. A. Stevens]: With Notes Variorum, For the illustration of historical passages relating to the Hero of the Poem, and other remarkable Personages
 
 

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O sacred weapon, left for Truth's defence
Sole dread of Folly, Vice and Insolence!
—Pope.