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JOURNAL,s 1 R,If you think the inclcfed worthy a pkace-in your entertaining journal, you {hall ihortly' receive the remainder, fromYour humble fervant,Hieroglyphic.. 1771-OrThe TIMERS: A Tragi Comedy.As it is now A tied.ACT I.Scene, The open place before the StandardTavern in Leicejler-felds.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 itworth our Ears ?Eyes. Or Eyes ?Noses. OrNofes?Eyes. We come to fpy.Ears. And hearken.Noses. And fmell out.Fame. More than you underftand, I fear,Eyes. It may be fo.Ears. However do you proceed, never mind us.Eyes. We may perhaps rout that whichyou never meant.Noses. And nofe the thing you fcent not. But firll, whence come you ?Fame. I come from Saturn.Ears. Saturn? What is he?Nosks. Some jacobite ! warrant you, fomeTime-ferver, as Fame herfelf is.- Fame. You are near the mark : indeed heis Time itfelf and his fur-name Chronos.■Noses. Mow! Saturn! Chronos! and the Time nfdf! I fmell him out, a notable old Pagan ; —or elfe the Jew whole bonds the Patriot fwa!Iow:d.Ears. Eat bonds! No, No. ’Tis an old heathen 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 dreffed wears a fcyths 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 rny trum-Cnromnn q]\ the hor eft natriots. the wifemy moil profound politicians Noses. We cannot tell.
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Middlesex Journal

London, Middlesex, GB

Tue, Aug 13, 1771

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