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Arthur falter'd?—I'll swallow such inpudent flams When the ears of the sow yield us purses of silk; When there's no Devil's Dust in the Cotton Lord's shams, And the truck-master's pail holds unmystified milk.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various