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THE CAMBRIDGE courTSHIP.

[This jeu d'esprit was written a short time previous to the Electio High Steward of the University of Cambridge, for which Offi Noble Lord alluded to made an active Canvass.]

WHEN sly Jemmy Twitcher had smugg

his face,

With a lick of court white-wash, and pious grim A wooing he went, where three sisters of old In harmless society guttle and scold.

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And all the town rings of his swea
And filching and lying, and Newga
Not I; for a coronet, chariot an
DIVINITY heard, between wa
Her sisters denying, and Jemmy
From table she rose, and with bu
She stroked up her belly, and s
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Did not Israel filch from the Eg!
Their jewels of silver and jewels
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