Date: 1745
"Off! Traitors! off! or my distracted Soul / Will burst indignant from this Jail of Nature! / To where she beckons yonder."
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Date: Performed Dec 1756, published 1757
"They little know mankind / Who doubt its [flattery's] operation: 'tis my key, / And opes the wicket of the human heart."
preview | full record— Home, John (1722-1808)