An Account of the Burning of Bachelor’s Hall Thomas Paine Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Cleary, Scott M., ed. Claeys, Gregory, gen. ed. Thomas Paine Collected Writings. Vol. II. Part 2: Poetry. Princeton Princeton UP 2026 pp. []-[]. 5 Volumes.

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An Account of the Burning of Bachelor’s Hall
To the Publisher of the Pennsylvania Magazine

An Account of the burning of Bachelor’s Hall ,

By The Old Bachelor
Fair Venus so often was miss’d from the skies , And Bacchus as frequently absent likewise , That the synod began to enquire out the reason , Suspecting the culprits were plotting of treason . At length it was found they had open’d a ball , At a place by the mortals call’d Bachelors ’ Hall ; Where Venus disclos’d ev’ry fun she could think of , And Bacchus made nectar for mortals to drink of . Jove highly displeased at such riotous doings Sent time to reduce the whole building to ruins . But time was so slack with his traces and dashes That Jove in a passion consumed it to ashes . P.S. As many of my papers are burnt , and the rest thrown about in confusion , you must wait a month or two longer to hear the conclusion .