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May Fair

In four cantos [by George Croly]
Croly, George (1780-1860)
  
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MAY FAIR.
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CANTO I. THE MORNING VISIT.
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CANTO II. THE DINNER.
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CANTO III. THE AFTER-DINNER.
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CANTO IV. THE MIDNIGHT DRIVE.
  
L'ENVOY.

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But the keenest was to come:
Muse of History be dumb!
Though the passage lay in sight,
Somewhere to the left or right;
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Or behind them, or before them,
Home the scoundrel breezes bore them.
But next summer 'twill be found,
Who will bet ten thousand pound?
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