Note 177 — POSTSCRIPT.
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These Notes may fittingly be closed by another Extract from our amiable Quaker Poet, who seems attentively to have examined the Characters of both the Wonders and the More Wonders:
"In the solemn Days of Old, Two Men met in Boston Town— One a Merchant Frank and bold, One a Preacher of renown. Cried the last, in bitter Tone— 'Prisoner of the Wells of Truth, Satan's Hireling thou hast sown With his Tares the Heart of Youth!' Spake the honest Merchant then— God be Judge 'twixt Thee and I; All thou knowst of Truth hath been Unto Men like thee a lie."