Rally Mohawks! bring out your axes,

And tell King George we’ll pay no taxes

On his foreign tea;

His threats are vain, and vain to think

To force our girls and wives to drink

His vile Bohea!

—allegedly sung at the Green Dragon Tavern when rallying for the Boston Tea Party

For since the Government o’ th’ City

Hath lade devolv’d on a Committe

Whose Sov’reign Right to rule the Nation,

Has Tar & Feathers for Foundation;

.  .  .

Fair Reas’ning & Fair Trade are hiss’d at,

As het’rageneous to a free State;

To cheat the King is Public Spirit,

Republicans will aver it,

And prove by Syllogistic Juggle,

True social Virtue is to smuggle.

—John Drinker, 1774¹