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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.

Lord! sister, says PHYSIC to LAW, I decla Such a sheep-biting look, such a pick-pocket Not I for the Indies!-You know I'm no prud But his name is a shame,-and his eyes are so le Then he shambles and straddles so oddly-I fe No-at our time of life 'twould be silly, my d

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ite-wash, and pious grima
ere three sisters of old
tle and scold.
HYSIC to LAW, I declare,
k, such a pick-pocket air!
You know I'm no prude
-and his eyes are so lewd!

raddles so oddly-I fear-
'twould be silly, my dear.

They say he's no Christian, low

W -g

And all the town rings of his swea
And filching and lying, and Newg
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
band-

What a pother is here about wenc
Why, David lov'd catches, and S
Did not Israel filch from the Egy
Their jewels of silver and jewels
The prophet of Bethel, we read,
He drinks-so did Noah;-he s

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