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A Street Fight. (To Mr F - - .) {38}

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Sir, we approve your curling lip and nose         At this vile sight.      These men, these women are brute beasts? - Who knows,         Sir, but that you are right?      Panders and harlots, rogues and thieves and worse,         We are a crew      Whose pitiful plunder's honoured in the purse         Of gentlemen like you.      Whom holy Competition's taught (like us)         "What's thine is mine!" -      How we must love you who have made us thus,         You may perhaps divine!

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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