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NEW CORN LAWS—A Song.

Tune.—The Factor's Garland.

In the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, we hear
That a new corn bill on the stage did appear;
But so many petitions against it were sent,
That our great corn lawyers saw meet to repent.

Meantime they a grand commitee did appoint,
To examine the matter, and all things disjoint,
For farmers and Landholders all should make rich,
If trademen of all kinds should die in a ditch.

Next season this grand committee did report,
That no farmer could live without shutting each port,
When the quarter of grain was sold under four pounds,
Unless the landholders would lower their grounds.

O then, said the Landholders, we must proceed
To get a bill pass'd with all possible speed,
For we are determin'd our rents to uphold,
As we must still ride in our chariots of gold.