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RNYG.780.031
22 Jan 1780:22 (346)
From the General Evening Post.
SIR, Inclosed is the following song, which is now sung in
our streets, and if you think it worth inserting, being both
temporary and local, I shall not think much of the trouble I
had in transcribing it. Yours, &c. [signed] A Devonian.
I.
Ye Devonshire lads, and ye lasses,
To Plymouth haste! to see what passes!
Here's d'Orvilliers fleet, with the fleet of Don d'Arce
Here's d'Orvilliers fleet, &c.
And the farce of all farces the French naval farce
French naval farce,
With d'Orvilliers and d'Arce,
And the farce of all farces's the French naval farce.
. . . [3 more verses of 4 lines each, each with a slightly
different refrain.]
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