Variety pursue!

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——:o:——

Gray’s Ode for Music, performed in the Senate House at Cambridge, July 1, 1769, at the installation of the Duke of Grafton, Chancellor of the University, commenced as follows:—

Air.

Hence! avaunt! ’tis holy ground,

Comus and his midnight crew,

And ignorance with looks profound,

And dreaming Sloth of pallid hue!

Mad Sedition’s cry prophane,