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Thoughts, words, and deeds, the Statute blames with reason; / But surely Dreams were ne'er indicted Treason.
On reading, in the public papers, the Laureate's Ode, with the other parade of June 4th, 1786, the Author was no sooner dropt asleep, than he imagined himself transported to the Birth-day Levee: and, in his dreaming fancy, made the following Address: