The New-York Weekly Magazine, or Miscellaneous Repository / Forming an Interesting Collection of Original and Select Literary Productions in Prose and Verse

by Unknown

ON SEEING A MISER AT A CONCERT.

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast,

To calm the tyrant and relieve th’ opprest:

The enticing Concert’s more attractive pow’r,

Unlock’d a Miser’s pocket at threescore:

O strange effect of music’s matchless force,

To extract a dollar from a full stown purse.

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