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Page 31 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red...
Page 38 - The hand of Nature on peculiar minds Imprints a different bias, and to each Decrees its province in the common toil. To some she taught the fabric of the sphere, The changeful moon, the circuit of the stars, The golden zones of heaven...
Page 22 - Weftminfter-Hall in the fame Order as before, except the Regalia* Prebends, and Choirs, which did not return ; and the Marquis of Rockingham, who attended his Majefty to fupport his right Arm.
Page 21 - Majesty was then invested with the armill, the purple robe or imperial pall, and orb, and afterwards receiving the ring, returned the orb to the altar. The Marquis of Rockingham, deputy to the Duke of Norfolk, as Lord of the Manor of Worksop...
Page 18 - Lord archbishop of Canterbury, in his rochet, with his cap in his hand, Dr. Thomas Seeker. Two gentlemen...
Page 22 - Higbnefs the Duke of York, and his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cumberland, fitting at the End of the Table, on his Majefty's right...
Page 22 - The coronation of his majesty being finished, the queen removed from her seat on the south side of the area to a chair placed before the altar, and was anointed, (four ladies holding a pall over her...