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Address,
To snatch them from the gulp h where thousand snares For hapless beauty , infamy prepares , To dry the burning tear-drops that run o ' er , And point to hope and better things in store ! All this is yours ; and M ASONRY divine . Triumphantly exclaims , " 'Tis also mine !"
Yet now , methinks , some genfle fair I hear , " Bless us ! what crowds of Masons we have here ! Masonry is a very curious thing'Tis something wrong I ' m just considering ; Brother , I do not mean to be uncivil . But tell me , do they really raise the devil ?
Calcraft , I hope , will let the secret out , Ancl tell the people what ' tis all about !" Fair ladies , really you have not guess'd well , The secret is—I have a mind to tell—To tell—no , not the secret—but to say , We thank you all for coming to our play ;
You ' ve aided us—with you we ' ve done our best To succour virtue friendless and distress'd ; We own , too , that but for your gentle aid , Weak would have been each effort we have made ; Yours be the triumph , then ! for , without you , Our prospects would ( like us ) look rather blue !
Accept the thanks of every Mason here—Not from lips only but from hearts sincere ; May ye be loved and happy as ye are fair ! But think of Masons only as they are ! Heed not the stories vulgar minds receive , But keep this night in memory , and believe That CHARITY and MASONRY ( the same In principle ) bat differ in the name !
In the year 1797 Freemasonry in Ireland flourished so greatly under its accomplished Grand Master the Earl of Donoughmore , that scarcely a village was without its Masonic Meeting . The number of Masons made , therefore , in the sister isle manifested an enthusiasm which greatly exceeded its popularity in England . About SO lodges met in Dublin aloneand in the city of Armagh 34 lodges of that single county
, assembled in general committee , to , vote resolutions expressive of their loyalty , with a declaration to support the King and Constitution . In 1834 scarcely eight lodges meet in Dublin . O quam tempora mntnntur .
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Address,
To snatch them from the gulp h where thousand snares For hapless beauty , infamy prepares , To dry the burning tear-drops that run o ' er , And point to hope and better things in store ! All this is yours ; and M ASONRY divine . Triumphantly exclaims , " 'Tis also mine !"
Yet now , methinks , some genfle fair I hear , " Bless us ! what crowds of Masons we have here ! Masonry is a very curious thing'Tis something wrong I ' m just considering ; Brother , I do not mean to be uncivil . But tell me , do they really raise the devil ?
Calcraft , I hope , will let the secret out , Ancl tell the people what ' tis all about !" Fair ladies , really you have not guess'd well , The secret is—I have a mind to tell—To tell—no , not the secret—but to say , We thank you all for coming to our play ;
You ' ve aided us—with you we ' ve done our best To succour virtue friendless and distress'd ; We own , too , that but for your gentle aid , Weak would have been each effort we have made ; Yours be the triumph , then ! for , without you , Our prospects would ( like us ) look rather blue !
Accept the thanks of every Mason here—Not from lips only but from hearts sincere ; May ye be loved and happy as ye are fair ! But think of Masons only as they are ! Heed not the stories vulgar minds receive , But keep this night in memory , and believe That CHARITY and MASONRY ( the same In principle ) bat differ in the name !
In the year 1797 Freemasonry in Ireland flourished so greatly under its accomplished Grand Master the Earl of Donoughmore , that scarcely a village was without its Masonic Meeting . The number of Masons made , therefore , in the sister isle manifested an enthusiasm which greatly exceeded its popularity in England . About SO lodges met in Dublin aloneand in the city of Armagh 34 lodges of that single county
, assembled in general committee , to , vote resolutions expressive of their loyalty , with a declaration to support the King and Constitution . In 1834 scarcely eight lodges meet in Dublin . O quam tempora mntnntur .