The poetical works of Sir Alexander Boswell ... Now first collected and edited, with memoir, by Robert Howie Smith |
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Bamboozle.
Fye on the laws that hang a man for stealing,
Sure such penal statutes, were savagely fram'd
By legislators devoid of human feeling,
Before divine religion mankind had tam'd.
Gentlemen, 'tis yours, with vigour,
To check the law's excessive rigour,
Yours is the power, to you the choice is given.
A father—husband—bends;
On you his fate depends:
'Tis yours to take or give,
To bid him die—or live!
Then here that mercy show, you hope from Heaven.
Fye on the laws that hang a man for stealing,
Sure such penal statutes, were savagely fram'd
By legislators devoid of human feeling,
Before divine religion mankind had tam'd.
Gentlemen, 'tis yours, with vigour,
To check the law's excessive rigour,
Yours is the power, to you the choice is given.
A father—husband—bends;
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'Tis yours to take or give,
To bid him die—or live!
Then here that mercy show, you hope from Heaven.
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