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Told ho^7tbe field v/as (Irew'd v/iili Britori3 flain, And ibat three hundred wore the vigors chain! Fartcne chang'd fides on that aufpicious day; The haughty Britons lullen ftalk'd away. A hairy march toBrunfwick fav'dthefoe, Their towering hopes of conqueft now laid low: Onboard their fliips in wild confufion ran, And hail with joy the fricrxdly fetting-fur.; The navy grcanM beneath the guilty load, Launch'd from the Hiore where late it proudly rode; TheTi fought inglorious, fome more peaceful fhorc, Rapine and murder ftalk'd along before! InmyTfic daninefs, //■o-yj^'j defigns were bound, Wrapt upinfliades— a myftery— profound!

At length the clouds and mifts difperfi away, As the taU fliips appear'diti Ches*pcak bay; 'Ins irrr.:)r.saU land .-—a formidable hofr, Ar-d march in halle along the fertile coaft. Their objea now to <^vQxy man v;as known : The dazzling prize, Pcnn's rich and fpacious to^vn t Philadelphia call'd, where Congrefs held iheir feaf, Where men from foreign climes vvere us'd to meet; Here merchants wealihy as Peruvian Dons, Send to the camp their brave and gallant fens; And beauteous virgins, for the public weal, ]oin'd with the matrons at ihefpinninp; wheel 1 And for avime difdain'd to wear tlfe cloth, Ey Britons'wove, and fcorn'd ignoble lloth; Made ha':!ghty Albion fcoopbeneatli their power, And iloodthe teftof many ^ peril ouihovir!