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Poems on Various Subjects

with some Essays in Prose, Letters to Correspondents, &c. and A Treatise on Health. By Samuel Bowden
 
 

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A REBUS ON THE AUTHOR's NAME.

What was chiefly in use before guns were invented,
And the place of retreat for wild beasts under ground,
Where they couch under covert, secure and contented,
Makes the name of a Poet that's highly renown'd.