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To the Printer of the M IDDLESEXJOURNALSIR,If you think the inclcfed worthy a place in your entertaining journal, you fhali ihortly' receive the remainder, fromYour humble fervant,Hieroglyphic.. 1771-OrThe TIMES: A Tragi Comedy.As it is now Ailed.ACT I.Scene, The open place before the 'StandardTavern in Lekefar-f.elds.*Enter Fame, followed by a mob of Ears, Eyes and Noses without Heads.Fame founds her Trumpet.Attend, ho, liften, hear what Fame proclaims!#Ears. What? What? Is it politics ? Is it worth our Ears ?Eyes. Or Eyes ?Noses. OrNofes?Eyes. We come to fpy.Ears. And hearken.Noses. And fmeil out.Fame. More than you underftand, I fear,my moil profound politicians.Noses. We cannot tell.Eyes. It may be fo.Ears. However do you proceed, never mind us.Eyes. We may perhaps f*y out that which you never meant.Noses. And nofe the thing you fcent not. But firil, whence come you ?Fame. I come from Saturn.Ears. Saturn? What is he?Nos i s. Some Jacobite 1 warrant you, fomeTime-ferver, as Fame herfelf is.- Fame. You are near the mark : indeed heis Time itfelf and his fur-name Chronos.Noses. How! Saturn! Chronos! and the Time nfdf! I fmcll him out, a notable old Pagan 5 —or elfe the Jew whole bonds the Patriot fvva!low?d.Ears. Eat bonds 1 No, No. ’Tis an oldheathen King, who (like the moderns) eat uphi* own children.Eyes. Y’are out, y’are out. *Tis an old fafnion’d fellow I have feen, who when ne is drcffed wears a fey the in (lead of a fword.All. Well, well, we are all wife enough : vfe want no interpreters. We care not who he is. Go on, Fame, what fays Saturn ?Fame. Saturn hath fent me with ray trumpet to fummon all thehoneft patriots, the wife politicians, and other the good people of this if]and, that fmce they like not the prefent, they may confuh together and fettle what fort of times they v, ould delire.
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Middlesex Journal
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Aug 13, 1771
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