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THE PRINCESS:

A MEDLEY.

PROLOGUE.


Sir Walter Vivian all a summer's dayGave his broad lawns until the set of sunUp to the people: thither flock'd at noonHis tenants, wife and child, and thither halfThe neighbouring borough with their InstituteOf which he was the patron. I was thereFrom college, visiting the son,—the sonA Walter too,—with others of our set.
And me that morning Walter show'd the house,