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Poems, chiefly pastoral

By John Cunningham. The second edition. With the Addition of several pastorals and other pieces
 
 

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A POSTSCRIPT.

Would honest Tom G---d get rid of a scold,
The torture, the plague of his life!
Pray tell him to take down his lion of gold,
And hang up his brazen-fac'd wife.
 

Landlord of the Golden Lion, an inn in Yorkshire.