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The Poems and Miscellaneous Compositions of Paul Whitehead

With Explanatory Notes on his Writings, and His life written by Captain Edward Thompson. With a Head of the Author, From a Painting by Mr. Gainsborough
  

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TO DR. KING.

Oft have I heard, with clam'rous note,
A yelping Cur exalt his throat
At Cynthia's silver rays;
So, with the blaze of Learning's light,
When You, O King, offend his sight,
The Spaniel Blaco bays.