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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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Those Quills which, moulting from the Wing,
Fall into Impudence's Spring,
Are by the Cits, that ev'ry day
To drink the Waters pass that Way,
Pick'd up, and from these Pens they bring
Addresses, to affront the King.