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PGCJ.769.016
12 Aug 1769:42 (292)
From the London Chronicle of April 22. . . .
When the mayor, one Mr. Bell, and corporation had advice
that Queen Elizabeth intended to honour them with a visit, a
hall was called, and the town clerk, who was temporary poet
laureat, ordered by the court to furnish a copy of verses,
which he manufactured as follow:
Be merry, John Bell, be merry,
Thou mayor of Coventry;
For her majesty's grace
Is come to this place
To see me.
. . . but it was objected, that as the Queen came to visit
the whole corporation . . . men his poetry, which he did
thus:
Be merry, John Bell, be merry,
Thou mayor of Coventry;
For her majesty's grace
Is come to this place
To see we.
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