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EG.774.026
30 Aug-6 Sep 1774:42 (7/319)
From the Massachusetts Spy, September 1.
A GENERAL SAMPLE OF GUBERNATORIAL ELOQUENCE, AS LATELY
EXHIBITED TO THE COMPANY OF CAD--S.
Your Colonel Han---k by neglect,
Has been deficient in respect;
As he my sov'reign toe ne'er kiss'd,
'Twas proper he should be dismiss'd"
. . . [12 lines follow]
[Verses relate to the incident wherein General Gage
dismissed Hancock as Colonel of the Cadets, whereupon the
Cadets returned the standard to Gage, saying they were no
longer his Cadets.]
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