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yQu'fig and Ingenuous 'P^eafant torn from hi^ 

 weeping Parents, and his diftraded Bride, 

 and either hurried into a loathfome dungeon, 

 or baniflied to an unhealthy chmate, only 

 fer the murder of a Hare or a Partridge, 

 But I will venture to fay, there is hardly a 

 Day-laborer in the kingdom that may not, 

 in a ^eafonab^e 'manner, be indulged with 

 the uf?. of thefe animals by a proper appli- 

 cation; and if he is fond of the diverfioa 

 they afford, and chufes to be idly bufy ra- 

 thier tliaii,iudufi:fioullyfo,,-he rnay perfedly, 

 iajtisfy. hlmfelf by attending the Hounds or 

 Gr^ylio.uads qf the 'Squire, or alTifting the 

 Qame-keeper with his gun. But that Laws 

 ihoulcj be niade to prevent the man, whofe 

 family . depends entirely on his labor for 

 fiipport, from quitting his flail, his plough, 



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