The Poetical Works of Henry Brooke ... In Four Volumes Octavo. Revised and corrected by the Original Manuscript With a Portrait of the Author, and His Life By Miss Brooke. The Third Edition |
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1st Shep.These gauntlets, we understand,
From annals, time out of mind,
Have giv'n due weight to each hand
Of the bruisers of mankind.
Still apt to his occupation
Whom no restriction awes;
Whose courage would cuff a nation,
And quell both land and laws.
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