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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe was born around 1660 in the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate, to James and Alice Foe. In August of 1662 the family’s pastor was ejected from his post for failure to comply with the Act of Uniformity, which

Just such a happy Change, our Nation finds

by Daniel Defoe (1660–1731)

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  Just such a happy Change, our Nation finds: 
 If we Unite, our once Contented Minds, 
 With our rich Neighbour: then, doth dawn the day, 
 Which drives all Feuds and enmities away. 
 Let base Revenge and Damn'd Envy be gone, 
 And all our Int'rests be conjoyn'd in one. 
 No   Mastiff Devil    can our good withstand, 
 If as true Friends, we do join hand to hand, 
 That so no more of jealousies be known; 

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