I fear the brave, the injur'd multitude, Repeated wrongs, arouse them to resent, And every patriot like old Brutus stands, The shining steel half drawn--its glitt'ring point Scarce hid beneath the scabbard's friendly cell, Resolv'd to die, or see their country free. HATEALL. Then let them die--_The dogs we will keep down_-- While N----'s my friend, and G---- approves the deed, Tho' hell and all its hell-hounds should unite, I'll not recede to save from swift perdition My wife, my country, family, or friends. G----'s mandamus I more highly prize Than all the mandates of th' etherial king. HECTOR MUSHROOM. Will our abettors in the distant towns Support us long against the common cause, When they shall see from Hampshire's northern bounds Thro' the wide western plains to southern shores The whole united continent in arms?---- HATEALL. They shall--as sure as oaths or bond can bind; I've boldly sent my new-born brat abroad, Th' association of my morbid brain, To which each minion must affix his name, As all our hope depends on brutal force, On quick destruction, misery, and death; Soon may we see dark ruin stalk around, With murder, rapine, and inflicted pains; Estates confiscate, slav'ry, and despair, Wrecks, halters, axes, gibbeting and chains, All the dread ills that wait on civil war;---- How I could glut my vengeful eyes to see The weeping maid thrown helpless on the world, Her sire cut off.--Her orphan brothers stand, While the big tear rolls down the manly cheek. Robb'd of maternal care by grief's keen shaft, The sorrowing mother mourns her starving babes, Her murder'd lord torn guiltless from her side, And flees for shelter to the pitying grave To screen at once from slavery and pain. HAZLEROD. But more complete I view this scene of woe, By the incursions of a savage foe, Of which I warn'd them, if they dare refuse The badge of slaves, and bold resistance use. Now let them suffer--I'll no pity feel. HATEALL. Nor I!----But had I power, as I have the will, I'd send them murm'ring to the shades of hell. _End of the First Act._ ACT II. _The scene changes to a large dining room. The table furnished with bowls, bottles, glasses, and cards.----The Group appear sitting round in a restless attitude. In one corner of the room is discovered a small cabinet of books, for the use of the studious and contemplative; containing, Hobbs's Leviathan, Sipthorp's Sermons, Hutchinson's History, Fable of the Bees, Philalethes on Philanthropy, with an appendix by Massachusettensis, Hoyl on Whist, Lives of the Stuarts, Statutes of Henry the Eighth, and William the Conqueror, Wedderburne's speeches, and acts of Parliament, for 1774._ SCENE I. _HATEALL, HAZLEROD, MONSIEUR, BEAU TRUMPS, SIMPLE, HUMBUG, SIR SPARROW, &c., &c._ SCRIBLERIUS.