On A Fart - Let In The House Of Commons
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Reader, I was born, and cried; I crack'd, I smelt, and so I died. Like Julius Caesar's was my death, Who in the senate lost his breath. Much alike entomb'd does lie The noble Romulus and I: And when I died, like Flora fair, I left the commonwealth my heir.
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