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Poems on Various Subjects

with some Essays in Prose, Letters to Correspondents, &c. and A Treatise on Health. By Samuel Bowden
 
 

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Epig. 74. To CECILIAN.

When free, and unrestrain'd, your wife was kept,
No beaus approach'd her, and in peace you slept:
But guarded now, gallants unnumber'd rise,
Methinks, Cecilian, you are wond'rous wise!