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SIR JOHN: What ye look at?
CECILIA: A little animal, that round my glove, And up and down to ev'ry finger's tip, Has travell'd merrily, and travels still, Tho' it has wings to fly. What its name is With learned men I know not. Simple folks Call it the Lady-bird.

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James Hurdis

James Hurdis

Born: 1763
Died: 1801 (aged 38)
Bio: James Hurdis was an English clergyman and a poet, born in Bishopstone, East Sussex. He studied at St Mary Hall, Oxford, and Magdalen College, Oxford, later becoming a Fellow of Magdalen College.
Known for:
  1. The village curate
  2. The Favourite Village
  3. Poems (1796)

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