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If on your head[62] some vengeance fell, MOIRA, for every tale you tell, The listening Lords to cozen;[63] If but one whisker lost its hue, Changed (like Moll Coggin’s tail) to blue, I’d hear them by the dozen.
Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.
If on your head[62] some vengeance fell, MOIRA, for every tale you tell, The listening Lords to cozen;[63] If but one whisker lost its hue, Changed (like Moll Coggin’s tail) to blue, I’d hear them by the dozen.