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IMITATION VI.

OY! bring an ounce of Freeman's best,

BOY!

And bid the vicar be my guest:

Let all be plac'd in manner due ;
A pot wherein to fpit, or fpue,
And London Journal, and Free-Briton,
Of ufe to light a pipe, or *

This village, unmolested yet
By troopers, fhall be my retreat :
Who cannot flatter, bribe, betray;
Who cannot write, or vote for *.
Far from the vermin of the town,
Here let me rather live, my own,
Doze o'er a pipe, whofe vapour bland
In fweet oblivion lulls the land;

Of all, which at Vienna paffes,

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And scorning rafcals to carefs,

Extol the days of good queen Bess,

When firft Tobacco bleft our isle,

Then think of other queens and smile.

Come jovial pipe, and bring along
Midnight revelry, and fong;

The merry catch, the madrigal,

That echoes sweet in City hall;

The parfon's pun, the fmutty tale
Of country juftice o'er his ale.
I ask not what the French are doing,
Or Spain to compass Britain's ruin :
Britons, if undone, can go,
Where Tobacco loves to grow.

END OF VOL. I

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