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The Poems of John Byrom

Edited by Adolphus William Ward

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XV. TO MISO-MANC. AND COMPANY.

Slain is the good old Cause, when Philaleth.,
A Rumpish Martyr, blunder'd to his Death;

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The Fight renew'd by English Jack and Hal,
They worse confound the matter than Philal.
With three such Champions sure the Cause will thrive,—
One dead, and Two that are not yet alive.