Amusement for starving mechanics : For the benefit of The tythe and tax club. Shortly will be performed, The comical tragedy of long faces, Prepared by a Herd of wolves in Sheep's Cloathing, Under the Direction of a Gang of Cut-Throats, Plunderers, and Assassins, When they and their deluded Followers are a Third Time, by a Decee of Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, To call upon their God To bless their Arms and sanctify their Crimes: The Friends of Mankind, Are desired at the same time, to pray earnestly to the God of Elijah, to continue his protection and assistance to the Righteous in their own defence to "abate the pride, assuage "the malice, and confound the devices," of the cruel and tyrannical Butchers of the human race, and to humble their iron hearts to speedy terms of peace and submission.

Format:

Book

Standardized Title:

For the benefit of the tythe and tax club.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Verse drama, English--Early works to 1800.

Verse drama, English.

Genre:

Advertisements.

Poems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet )

Other Title:

Amusement for starving mechanics.

Place of Publication:

[London?] : At the Tree of Liberty [i.e. R. Lee], No. 2, St. Ann's-Court, Dean-Street, Soho-Square; where may be had, variety of cheap Patriotic Publications, [1795]

Notes:

The concluding verses signed R. Lee.

First published in 1794 as 'For the benefit of the tythe and tax club'.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T21855.

OCLC:

642539581