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James Beattie

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When squint-eyed Slander plies the unhallow'd tongue,
From poison'd maw when Treason weaves his line,
And Muse apostate (infamy to song!)
Grovels, low muttering, at Sedition's shrine.
--
The Judgment of Paris (1765), stanza 109.

 
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