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PC.773.031
1-8 Mar 1773:251 (321)
London, Nov. 7. . . It is said that a great magistrate, who
lately hopped into a certain chair, is so out of humour with
that word, he has ordered his brewer to put no hops in his
beer. It is also reported he will have no ball at Easter
for fear it should be called a hop. Nay, so highly enraged
is he with this poor harmless monosyllable, that the parish-
clerk had like to have been committed by the brutal tyrant
for singing out of a stave in Sternhold, "Why hop ye so ye
hills?" He has ordered Hopkins to be erased from his psalm-
book.
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