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May Fair

In four cantos [by George Croly]
  

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“The Colonel? yes, he never misses,
Since F-fe deserted the coulisses.
Why sits he from the crowd aloof,
Gazing so fiercely on the roof?”
“'Tis whisper'd that he comes to town
Express, to have the house knock'd down.”