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Nicholas Bindle

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Were you not ashamed, fellow citizens,         When my estate was probated and everyone knew         How small a fortune I left? -         You who hounded me in life,         To give, give, give to the churches, to the poor,         To the village! - me who had already given much.         And think you not I did not know         That the pipe-organ, which I gave to the church,         Played its christening songs when Deacon Rhodes,         Who broke and all but ruined me,         Worshipped for the first time after his acquittal?

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