THE FALSE COUNT, OR, A New Way To play an old GAME

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From the PROLOGUE - Spoken by Don Carlos


KNOW all ye Whigs and Tories of the Pit,
(Ye furious Guelphs and Gibelins of Wit,
Who for the Cause, and Crimes of Forty One
So furiously maintain the Quarrel on)
Our Author, as you'll find it writ in Story,
Has hitherto been a most wicked Tory ;
But now, to th' joy o'th' Brethren be it spoken,
Our Sister's vain...