16 Oct 1782:22 (2/78)
Freeman's Journal                    
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16 Oct 1782:22 (2/78)                                                   
Mr. Bailey, I read in your paper some months ago, a kind of             
a song in celebration of the marriage between a great                   
personage among us, and a Goddess called Cloacina.  I verily            
thought at the time, and ruminated and pondered on the                  
story--that the thing was portentous and of malign aspect,              
like a blazing star or a comet, as the philosophers call it,            
which always forbodes some disastrous event.  so much filth             
allied with so much malice, --what would they produce? . . .            
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   One circumstance only remains to be observed, which shews            
that I am right as to their parentage.  It is this; that the            
chief of the harpies, and the nastiest of the whole group,              
told the Trojans that her father was one Apollo, an ancient             
fiddler and player upon the spinnet.  Just so--but I will               
not enlarge:  People's memories and imaginations will                   
suggest all I could say further. [signed] Malachi Lully.