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Containing I. Mr. Cobb's Tripos Speech at Cambridge, with a Complete key inserted. II. The Brawny Priest: Or, the Captivity of the Nose. A Poem

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So much Pains has he took to reform a bad Age,
And, what Collier could never do, ruin'd the Stage;
With Wit and Reproving, the other began,
And rally'd and rail'd like a well-meaning Man.
But our Doctor had found a more fortunate Hit,
He knew Axes and Hatchets were sharper than Wit.
So the young Son of Philip, when he could not pretend
T' untie the Knot, cut it, and there was an end.