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The Fall of Lucifer

Prime, Benjamin Young (1733-1791)

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Pest, hunger, thirst, cold, bruises, dungeons, chains,
Rape, insult, ravage, plunder, sword and fire,
Form a dire system of compulsive pains,
Which in their plan of cruelty conspire.

Infectious diseases, and particularly the small-pox, to which they have inhumanly exposed their prisoners, and which they have endeavoured to propagate among the inhabitants of these States.