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a Farce, Modernised from Aristophanes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Were any FAITHLESS TO HIS WEDDED JOAN,
SMUGGLER, or RUFFIAN, or the THREE IN ONE,
The Bard with honest Liberty of Pen
Expell'd him from the “cheerful Haunts of Men:”
Pursued him through his Labyrinth of Sin;
First mark'd him selling Stays, then seizing Gin;
Next of his Country's Foes the Scribe and Friend,
And last—But who shall say WHERE those Things end?
Anon.