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11 4. On you we keep an anxious cyeeye [sic],

And see you never out the fry,

Sometimes about the beasts ye buy,

Exchange or sell,

Ye by defending one great lie

A hundred tell.

5. At deeds like yours our hearts recoil,

And sicken at the projects vile,

Which you gloss o'er in words like oil,

Smooth and paternal;

Conveying preeeptsprecepts [sic], all the while

Base and infernal.

6. No wonder neighbours wish you ill,

And fain would see you down the hill;

And you the name of "Scoundrel Will"

At last have gotten;

A name that will continue till

You're dead and rotten.

7. We do intend, come weal or woe,

By strict integrity to go,

That on our eonductconduct [sic] none may throw

The smallest blame:—

What can tbethe [sic] world on us bestow

Like a good name?

8. We cannot dwell on all you've said,

The despicable speech ye made;

But some revolting tricks ye played

We will not pass,

That would of common thieves degrade

The lowest elassclass [sic]

9. It seems, from the discourse we got,

You and your colleagues are a lot

Of downright knaves, who daily plot

To drivodrive [sic] a trade

Of erammingcramming [sic] bargains down folk's throat

They never made.