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• *EwhatP. I Tifhca n.ift;fee ) have1771To the Printer of the M IDDLES EXJOURNAL,SIR’. . .1If you think the inclcfed worthy a place in | adoryour entertaining journal, you fhall ihortly receive the remainder, fromYour humble fervant, |j timeHieroglyphic. j[ for’tobtaF Eplifb DonEtowrhaveandFEnter Fame, followed by a mob of Ears, lt;! imp Eyes and Noses without Heads.• OrThe TIMERS: A Tragi Comedy.As it is now' Acted.ACT I.Scene, The open place before the StandardTavern in Leicefier-fdds.Fame founds her Trumpet.bell10four5rl »•, I isAttend, ho, liften, hear what Fame proclaims! jj 0I)]Ears. What? What? Is it politics ? Is itworth 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 moft 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 whichyou never meant.No*es. And nofe the thing you fcent not.But firil, whence come you ?Fame. I come from Saturn.Ears. Saturn? What is he?Nosr s. Some jacobite ! warrant you, fome Time-ferver, as Fame herfelf is.- Fame. You are near the mark : indeed he is 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 fwa!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. 5Tis an old fafhion’d fellow I have feen, who when iie is dreffed wears a fey the in [lead of a fword.All. Well, well, we are all wife enough : v?e want no interpreters. We care not who he is. Go on, Fame, what fays Saturn ?Fame. Saturn hath fent me with rny trumpet to fummon all thehoncft patriots, the wife politicians, and other the good people of this ifland, that fince they like not the prefent, they may confuh together and fettle what fort of times they v, ould defire.r-slt;r\ r\1 PnmP. tt/P ?? Ye.)go rPwhowougootmorft i e fWh.wailwho neyiP.. ii b r. c rO y iiprof and havt thntCorfoulor rEJobbirdTactandfbro!vFanFchaEFItheichilt;thepnedayincr)
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Middlesex Journal

London, Middlesex, GB

Tue, Aug 13, 1771

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