"The Goths were not so barbarous a Race / As the grim Rusticks of this motly Place; / Of Reason void, and Thought, whom Int'rest rules, / Yet will be Knaves tho' Nature meant them Fools."
A Letter From a Gentleman in Lincolnshire To His Friend at [illeg.]
Only 1 entry in the ESTC (1720).<br>
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Text from <u>Lincolnshire. A Poem.</u> (Bury St. Edmunds: Printed for the Author, 1720). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N2863">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Note, the ESTC lists the author as a "Gentleman in Lincolnshire"