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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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‘The next we heard that in a neighb'ring shire
‘That day to church he led a blushing bride;
‘A nymph, whose showy vest and maiden fear
‘Improv'd her beauty while the knot was ty'd.