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An Evening Contemplation in a College

Being a Parody on the Elegy in A Country Church-Yard. By another Gentleman of Cambridge [i.e. John Duncombe]

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Oft are the authors' names, tho' richly bound,
Mis-spelt by blund'ring binders' want of care;
And many a catalogue is strow'd around,
To tell th' admiring guest what books are there.