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New Poems by George Crabbe

Edited with an introduction and notes by Arthur Pollard
Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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Her name the Idol Affectation takes,
Puts on a smile and talks of rural ease,
Her speech of many a borrowed sentence makes
And boasts how “Quiet and a cottage please.”
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