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 Let bumpers of cyder unboundedly flow,

Which farmers, from duties exempt, may beſtow;

How juſt the exemption, I care not a whit,

'Tis my humour, my wiſh, and the pleaſure of P--.

With his art of perſuaſion what rival can cope?

Each hem is conviction; each belch is a trope;

How deplorably Athens and Rome are beſhit,

Their ſquibs ne'er can match the exploſions of P--.

When his forces are weak, and his partizans out,

Opportunely his members are rack'd with the gout;

But his party collected away goes the fit:

So kind, ſo obſequious, is nature to P..

Let demagogues trumpet the praiſe of the nation,

For cautious and delicate uſe of taxation;

America, conſcious of gaining the hit,

Will aſſert independence ſupported by P--.

With joyful preſages, the genius of France,

Views her navy encreaſe, and her commerce advance;

View the Lords of the occean their colou scolours [sic] ſubmit,

Deterr'd by the thunder ſhe borrow'd from P--.

Old Scotia, too late, for her freedom alarm'd,

Her Majeſty blaſted, her Thiſtle diſarm'd,

Now, vainly, her impotent venom my ſpit:

Juſt carſes and infamy trouble not P--.

So ſharpers of ſtate, their beſt game when they play,

Seditious foment, and divide, to betray:

But fame ſhall his wiſeſt precautions out-wit,

And eternally brand the tranſactions of P--.