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 loſt for my good King and dear country, both by the gun and the gully; and to tell you plainly, my friends, I did not do it for nothing, I loved to plunder better than to fight; and what do you think of my great and valiant name, Captain O Blunder: Ah, my hearts of oak, that I'll be dead and alive—Hurro, hurro, the brave Iriſhman for ever, it is not for a time, take me as I ſpeak, and cry for ever as I do; and my bucks as I am old and craized with cracking of ſculsskulls [sic], I have ſet up a haberdaſher's ſhop, to ſell kick-ſhows to my countrymen, whirligigs, and gimblets, pudding-pans and proſpects, ſpectacles of a new conſtruction, by which you will ſee all the kingdoms of the world, and ſweet Ireland alſo, for I am a currier of courts, and has ſurveyed all the kingdoms above and below the globe.

For which cauſe, I'll give you a lecture on the manners and madneſs of mankind, ah! how deceitful they prove to one another; and I ſhall begin at home, as charity did in the days of old; I ſhall ſeek no text, as the honeſt Quaker ſays, neither ſhall I touch on the Scriptures, as the ſubject is all on deceit, you have all heard of the bloody times in America, a well then, that is enough for you, it is eaſier to hear of it, than to ſuffer by it; but I muſt now expoſe my haberdaſher ware, as they are only for the uſe of you that is time ticklers, my whirligigs are for thoſe who ſit on the devil's cuſhion, which is an idle feat, ſtudying the deſtruction of their neighbours, and ruining of their country, it will pleaſe a child, and divert a fooliſh old evil thinking manMy gimblet, is for boring the ears of ſuch as will hear none ſpeak but themſelves, and when it is ſcrewed into the wood on the head, they will feel the point, but ſome great heads will not, My proſpect is for looking fourteen years behind you, and you will ſee them ſowing ſedition in Bri- tain