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CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY.

CHARACTERS.

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So if you'd really like to smile

An hour, come with me;

I've got good introductions,

And this society we'll see.

Ha! ha! I ought to know it well, methinks,

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Since I've been forced to call on half a score

Of persons who were once my father's friends.

'T is no great pleasure, but it must be done.

And they are queer, - there's no denying it.

They think themselves the centre of the world

When they are merely Cambridge citizens,

And Cambridge is at best a college town.

To-night's the Assembly; I will go and chaff

Miss Marrywell, whose mother, I have seen,

Would catch me in her meshes, - but she can't.

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