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Who had sent the Poet a Newspaper, and offered to continue it free of Expense.
Kind Sir, I've read your paper through, / And faith, to me, 'twas really new! / How guessed ye, Sir, what maist I wanted? / This mony a day I've grain'd and gaunted, / To ken what French mischief was brewin; / Or what the drumlie Dutch were doin; / That vile doup-skelper, Emperor Joseph, / If Venus yet had got his nose off; / Or how the collieshangie works / Atween the Russians and the Turks, / Or if the Swede, before he halt, / Would play anither Charles the twalt; / If Denmark, any body spak o't; / Or Poland, wha had now the tack o't: / How cut-throat Prussian blades were hingin; / How libbet Italy was singin;