Parody On The Recorder Of Blessington's Address To Queen Anne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D D E B| Mr William Crowe Recorder of Blessington's Address to her Majesty as copied from the London Gazette | A |
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| To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty | B |
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| The humble Address of the Sovereign Recorder Burgesses and Freemen of the Borough of Blessington | C |
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| May it please your Majesty Though we stand almost last on the roll of boroughs of this your majesty's kingdom of Ireland and therefore in good manners to our elder brothers press but late among the joyful crowd about your royal throne yet we beg leave to assure your majesty that we come behind none in our good affection to your sacred person and government insomuch that the late surprising accounts from Germany have filled us with a joy not inferior to any of our fellow subjects | D |
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| We heard with transport that the English warmed the field to that degree that thirty squadrons part of the vanquished enemy were forced to fly to water not able to stand their fire and drank their last draught in the Danube for the waste they had before committed on its injured banks thereby putting an end to their master's long boasted victories a glorious push indeed and worthy a general of the Queen of England And we are not a little pleased to find several gentlemen in considerable posts of your majesty's army who drew their first breath in this country sharing in the good fortune of those who so effectually put in execution the command of your gallant enterprizing general whose twin battles have with his own title of Marlborough given immortality to the otherwise perishing names of Schellenberg and Hogstete actions that speak him born under stars as propitious to England as that he now wears on both which he has so often reflected lustre as to have now abundantly repaid the glory they once lent him Nor can we but congratulate with a joy proportioned to the success of your majesty's fleet our last campaign at sea since by it we observe the French obliged to steer their wonted course for security to their ports and Gibraltar the Spaniards' ancient defence bravely stormed possessed and maintained by your majesty's subjects | D |
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| May the supplies for reducing the exorbitant power of France be such as may soon turn your wreaths of laurel into branches of olive that after the toils of a just and honourable war carried on by a confederacy of which your majesty is most truly as of the faith styled Defender we may live to enjoy under your majesty's auspicious government the blessings of a profound and lasting peace a peace beyond the power of him to violate who but for his own unreasonable conveniency destructive always of his neighbours never yet kept any And to complete our happiness may your majesty again prove to your own family what you have been so eminently to the true church a nursing mother So wish and so pray may it please your majesty your majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects and devoted humble servants | E |
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| This Address was presented January | B |
Jonathan Swift
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