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What is Sauce for a Goose is also Sauce for a Gander - 5

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Quick as the Flashes of Lightning,
Darted from a Cloud,
He would sometimes level
All DISTINCTIONS,
Pull down the very Walls
Of Power,
And fatally destroy the Safeguards
Of JUSTICE.
Blasting with the same Breath,
Every necessary Subordination;
And sitting at nought the Executors’
Of LAW and ORDER.
But in finally aiming to overturn
The best of Governments,
And dispossess the People of
Their CHARTER PRIVILEGES,
And inestimable Privileges,
He fell beneath Himself, a lingering Martyr.
To the Loss of popular Applause;
Oh mortifying Consideration!
Yet studious and artfull, tho’ conscious
of his Guilt,
He struggled hard, but in Vain,
To screen his Sins
From the Sight of the People;
While, with an Effrontery surprising,
He loudly bellow’d and vehemently complain’d
That MAGISTRACY,
Which he had trampled on and Wounded,
Was impotent and feeble.
Possessed of many lucrative
OFFICES;
Procured to him by the Interest of Men
Whom he infamously treated.
And receiving enormous Sums
from the Province,
For SERVICES
He never performed;
After betraying it to Party and Contention,

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  1. What is Sauce for a Goose is also Sauce for a Gander - 5