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The Works of Richard Owen Cambridge

Including several pieces never before published: with an account of his life and character, by his son, George Owen Cambridge

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If but some happier female's card I've seen,
I swell with rage, or sicken with the spleen;
While artful pride conceals the bursting tear,
With some forced banter or affected sneer:
But now grown desp'rate, and beyond all hope,
I curse the ball, the duchess and the pope.

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And as the loads of borrow'd plate go by,
“Tax it! ye greedy ministers,” I cry.
 

The duchess of Norfolk, who was a catholic.