From the Virginia gazette, August 25. A parody on a late proclamation.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 13287.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gage, Thomas, 1721-1787.

Gage, Thomas.

Massachusetts. Governor (1774-1775 : Gage). Massachusetts-Bay. By the governor. A proclamation. For the encouragement of piety ...

Massachusetts.

History.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Poetry.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Humor.

Genre:

Poetry.

Broadsides.

Poems -- 1774.

Humor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))

Other Title:

Parody on a late proclamation.

Place of Publication:

[Boston?] : [publisher not identified], [1774]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Verse of forty lines; first line: Humbly to imitate our Lord the King.

Followed by: From the Massachusetts-spy. September 1, 1774. A general sample of gubernatorial eloquence, as lately exhibited to the company of c----s [id est, councilors]. First line: Your Colonel h--k by neglect.

The first poem is a parody of Governor Gage's proclamation for the encouragement of piety and virtue, given at Salem on July 21, 1774 (Evans 13412). The second poem purports to be an attack on John Hancock by Gage.

"The sheet may have been printed in Virginia."--Ford.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 13287).

Cited in:

Evans 13287

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1724

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 596

Contains:

From the Massachusetts-spy. September 1, 1774. A general sample of gubernatorial eloquence ...

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