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Broadside regarding the last speech of George Clerk |
TranscriptionGEORGE CLERK'S LAST SPEECH and DYING WORDS on the Scaffold and at Penny- EPITAPH. Tune?" Miller of Drone." DEAR, dear Dundas, I'm fairly gone, What will be done, my friend ? And turn my enlarged mind. Has heard us with great joy ; I'm counted a bad boy. No rotten borough can be had, That I might tell my tale, Even Nature's like to fail. And I shall it fulfil; But first I'll drink my fill. Then without either fear or dread, My honest friend, Dundas, In view of Ossian's glass. Into my well loved hall,* * Ossian's Hall at Pennycuick House I'll do the deed by Ossian's harp, Then like unto friend Castlereagh, I'll strike an arter vein, That I may feel no pain. And did the ugly deed, And all his bloody seed. EPITAPH. O ! Satan, turn Clerk on a speet, An upright speet, pray mind, That you in h-ll can find, For evermore, Amen, Eternity of pain. ? Short weights to the poor, whose cry has been
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Probable period of publication:
1820-1830 shelfmark: L.C.Fol.74(037)
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