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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
Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)

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ON THE MARRIAGE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS FREDERICK PRINCE OF WALES:
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MISCELLANEOUS VERSES,
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THE SCRIBLERIAD:
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THE SCRIBLERIAD.
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MISCELLANEOUS VERSES,
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EPIGRAMS.
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The WORLD.

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4. ACTEON NO CUCKOLD.

I ne'er can agree on
The tale of Acteon,
With a moral so much misapplied;
As by wits who suppose,
They may class him with those,
Who have err'd in the choice of a bride.
But Diana undrest,
Was too tempting a jest,
To be lost on so curious a wag;
So the goddess in wrath
Leap'd out of the bath,
And turn'd the rash youth to a stag,
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