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THINGS,

AS

THEY WERE,---AS THEY ARE,

AND

AS THEY OUGHT TO BE.

A Poem.

WITH

AN EARNEST

Address to the Landowners

OF THE

UNITED KINGDOMS.

BY THOMAS TOVEY.

"When that the Poor have cried, Cæsar hath wept."

Shakespeare.

"A time there was, ere England's griefs began,
"When ev'ry rood of ground maintain❜d its man."

Goldsmith.

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