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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‘There in the arms of that lethargic chair,
‘Which rears it's moth-devoured back so high,
‘At noon he quaff'd three glasses to the fair,
‘And por'd upon the news with curious eye.
‘Which rears it's moth-devoured back so high,
‘At noon he quaff'd three glasses to the fair,
‘And por'd upon the news with curious eye.
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