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Excise tax - Great Britain - Poetry - Early works to 1800

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    Excise elegy: or, the Dragon demolish'd. A new ballad . To the tune of Packington's Pound. Dedicated to those worthy gentlemen Sir Paul Methuen, knight of the Bath, Sir William Wyndham, and Sir Abraham Elton, barts. Sir John Barnard, Knt. one of the aldermen of London, William Pulteney, William Shippen, Henry Rolle, and Samuel Sands, Esqs. Mr. Alderman ...sons and Mr. Alderman Perry, both of this city; and all others who distinguished themselves by speeches against the many-headed Hydra.

    Philalethes | Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]
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    The state juggler or, Sir Politick Ribband. A new excise opera. N.B. With this opera is given gratis, Britannia excisa, in Two Parts; and the Excise congress, with Three Emblematical Pictures, printed on a large sheet of Fine Paper, fit to be fram'd.

    | Date: 1733
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    The Congress of excise-asses. Or, Sir B--ue S--ng's overthrow: a new ballad. To the tune of, i'll tell thee, estcourt, a pleasant tale

    | Date: [1733]

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