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A nursery of novelties in Variety of Poetry

Planted for the delightful leisures of Nobility and Ingenuity. Composed by Tho. Jordan
  
  

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On the Act against Cock-matches, the next succeeding, their putting down of Church-Marriages.

When Wedlock was pull'd down by powerful hand,
We might well guess Cock-matches would not not stand.