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SCGCJ.773.060
17 Aug 1773:11 (403)
London, June 5. Yesterday being the anniversary of his
Majesty's Birth-Day, who entered the 36th year of his age,
there was a very numerous and brilliant appearance of the
nobility, Foreign Ministers, and other persons of
distinction, at St. James's, to compliment his Majesty on
the occasion. At noon the following Ode, written by William
Whitehead, Esq; Poet Laureat, and set to musick by Dr.
Boyce, Master of the King's Band of Musicians, was performed
before their Majesties, &c. at the Chapel-Royal. At one
o'clock the guns in the park and at the Tower were fired;
and at night there was a ball at Court, and illuminations
and other public demonstrations of joy throughout London and
Westminster.
ODE FOR HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY, JUNE 4, 1773.
Born for millions are the Kings
Who sit on Britain's guarded throne;
From delegated power their glory springs,
Their birth-day is our own!
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