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PP-P.774.045
8 Aug 1774:32 (3/146)
On reading in the eastern papers the address to General
Gage, from the Justices of Suffolk, in Massachusetts
government, with his Excellency's answer to it, brought to
my mind the address of the Mayor and Corporation of
Coventry, to Queen Elizabeth, on her paying them a visit.---
I will attempt to repeat it, though perhaps not literally.
We men of Coventry
Are very glad to see
Your Royal Majesty
Good Lord, how fair you be !
To which her Majesty replied,
My Royal Majesty
Is very glad to see
You men of Coventry
Good sirs, what fools you be. !
Now though I don't pretend to that elegance of language, and
beauty of poetry so eminently here displayed, I will aim at
a humble imitation.
TO GENERAL G--E.
His royal Majesty
In this time of "difficulty"
Has sent your Excellency
Dear sir how wise you be.
THE ANSWER.
I do most thankfully
Receive these lines from ye
Men who so plainly see
My great "ability"
Dear sirs what knaves ye be.
[signed] Z.
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