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All the talents' garland

or, A few rockets let off at a celebrated ministry. Including Elijah's mantle, the Uti Possidetis, and other poems of the same author. By eminent political characters. The third edition, greatly enlarged [by E. A. Barrett]
 

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ON THE SPANISH SAILOR,

WHO BEQUEATHED HIS TROWSERS TO AN EX-MINISTER.

So apt the gift, we all must grant,
It ne'er can be forgot;
For who could more thy breeches want,
Than a pauvre sans-culotte?