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The works of Mr. Thomas Brown

Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse; In four volumes. The Fourth Edition, Corrected, and much Enlarged from his Originals never before publish'd. With a key to all his Writings

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Upon the Anonymous Author of Legion's humble Address to the Lords.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Upon the Anonymous Author of Legion's humble Address to the Lords.

Thou Tool of Faction, mercenary Scribe,
Who preachest Treason to the Calves-head Tribe,
Whose fruitful Head, in Garret mounted high,
Sees Legions and strange Monsters in the Sky;
Who wou'dst with War and Blood thy Country fill
Were but thy Power as rampant as thy Will;
Well may'st thou boast thyself a Million strong,
But 'tis in Vermin that about thee throng.